Convicted quadruple murderer Bryan Kohberger, who admitted to stabbing four University of Idaho students a year before he proclaimed his innocence and asked to withdraw his guilty plea, has been granted two days in court next year as part of his petition for post-conviction relief.Judge Steven Hippler, who accepted Kohberger's guilty pleas in July 2025, set a status conference for June 3, 2027 and an evidentiary hearing two weeks later on June 17 of that year, according to a court order dated Wednesday.Prosecutors had asked the judge to dismiss Kohberger's petition without a hearing.ATTORNEY WHO DEFENDED DC SNIPER SAYS KOHBERGER FACES 'MONUMENTAL UPHILL BATTLE' UNDOING GUILTY PLEABryan 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) (Kyle Green/AP Photo, Pool)Kohberger pleaded guilty in July 2025 to the murders of four University of Idaho students — Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin — in a plea deal that spared him from the potential death penalty.A year later, he asked to withdraw his guilty pleas and proclaimed his innocence in a petition for post-conviction relief.BRYAN KOHBERGER'S POST-CONVICTION RELIEF BID ENABLED BY FLAWED PLEA DEAL, PSYCHOLOGIST ARGUESBryan Kohberger arrives at a Pennsylvania courthouse for an extradition hearing in January 2023.
He pleaded guilty to the murders of four University of Idaho students on July 1, 2025 (The Image Direct for Fox News Digital)Kohberger, in a handwritten petition on July 27, 2026, claimed that he was "convinced to falsely confess," by his high-profile defense team of Anne Taylor, Elisa Massoth and Bicka Barlow.He alleged that they failed to tell him about "exculpatory discovery" — hair found at the scene that was not tested for DNA.
It was excluded as Kohberger's through a physical analysis.FOLLO...