Bryan Kohberger's newest lawyer says upcoming filings and a potential evidentiary hearing will shed new light on the Idaho student murders case while their immediate legal fight concerns the constitutionality of the plea his client is attempting to withdraw."We think the [amended] PCR and evidentiary hearing will naturally address some of the outstanding and unanswered questions," Jason Goldman, a New York-based attorney who is joining Kohberger's team, told Fox News Digital Monday."That said, the main priority right now is to scrutinize the constitutional issues surrounding Bryan's plea."Kohberger, in a handwritten petition for post-conviction relief filed in July, told the court he had ineffective counsel, that his guilty plea was "not knowingly or voluntarily entered because it was induced by unkept promises" and that it was "not voluntarily entered because of threats asserted by petitioner's (Kohberger's) legal counsel."BRYAN KOHBERGER'S POST-CONVICTION RELIEF BID ENABLED BY FLAWED PLEA DEAL, PSYCHOLOGIST ARGUESUniversity 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 circumstances surrounding Bryan's plea — and what occurred in the critical days leading up to it — deserve careful, independent judicial scrutiny," Goldman said."Some of those circumstances are already part of the public record.
Others are not."He also said that the support Kohberger receives from his family is part of why he agreed to join the case.BRYAN KOHBERGER'S MOTHER CALLED HIM 'MY ANGEL' AND INSISTED POLICE MADE A 'REALLY, REALLY BAD MISTAKE': BOOKBryan Kohberger appears at the Ada County Courthouse for his sentencing hearing on July 23, 2025 in Boise, Idaho.Kohberger pleaded guilty in exchange for being spared the death penalty for the stabbing of four University of Idaho students nearly three years...