Bryan Kohberger has been appointed a new attorney to represent him in his petition for post-conviction relief — an attempt to withdraw his guilty plea that he filed on his own roughly a year after admitting to the murders of four University of Idaho students who were stabbed to death in November 2022.Kohberger, 30, is now being represented by attorney Greg Rauch, of Moscow, Idaho.Rauch told Fox News Digital he hasn't read the petition, the case file or spoken to Kohberger yet.He was just appointed Monday morning and said he expects to speak with Kohberger over the phone in the near future and then visit him in prison to talk face-to-face.GOT A TIP?Bryan Kohberger appears at the Ada County Courthouse for his sentencing hearing, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Boise, Idaho, for brutally stabbing four University of Idaho students to death nearly three years ago.
(AP Photo/Kyle Green, Pool)"Today, my goal is to set up phone contact with him," Rauch said."I gotta read the case file...I gotta check out the police reports.
I gotta talk to him."Kohberger is being held in the J-Block unit of the Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Kuna, about 300 miles south of where the crimes took place in Moscow, near the University of Idaho campus.BRYAN KOHBERGER'S FORMER DEFENSE EXPERT CALLS FOR DEATH PENALTY, SAYS INVESTIGATORS MISSED KEY EVIDENCEKohberger pleaded guilty in July 2025 to four counts of first-degree murder as well as a charge of burglary.Judge Steven Hippler sentenced him to four consecutive terms of life without the possibility of parole, plus another 10 years.University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were killed in a November 2022 attack at an off-campus house on King Road in Moscow, Idaho.
(Idaho Statesman/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)The plea deal required Kohberger to waive his right to appeal, however, that doesn't block him from seeking post-conviction relief, which could reopen the case if successful...