The Idaho prosecutor working on the case against murder suspect Bryan Kohberger filed new secretive documents on Wednesday in Latah County Magistrate court.
Fox News reports that the files typically posted online for public consumption have been taken down for unspecified security concerns. The file pulled from the Internet shows that the court received a new affidavit from Latah Prosecuting Attorney Bill Thompson and a court memo on Wednesday. Idaho Court Administrative Rule 32 gives the court three days to release non-exempt records upon demand. Therefore, the filings have yet to be public, but they may be soon.
The court also uploads filings on its website once a week, on Fridays, according to Fox News.
These filings come just days after the attorney for one of the victims family appealed the courts gag order in this case. The current order says that the prosecutor, defense attorneys, investigators, and other officials are not permitted to comment publicly about the case. That order has been expanded to include attorneys for the family, victims, and witnesses in this case.
Shanon Gray, the attorney for the family of victim Kaylee Goncalves parents, said the court gag order was overly broad and unconstitutional. He wrote the following about it:
As attorney for one of the Victims families, I am allowed to relay to the media any of the opinions, views, or statements of those family members regarding any part of the case (as they are allowed to speak about the case under the First Amendment).
Kohberger is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022. He is accused of ambushing a group of six students who were all sleeping in the same house that night. Kohberger is accused of killing four of the six people sleeping there that night.
Two people at the house that night were not attacked at all. One of those left unharmed stated that she observed a man with large eyebrows escaping out the houses back door.
The probable cause affidavit suggests that Kohberger stalked the King Road house for at least a few weeks before the attack. He then revisited the scene hours after the attack before taking a long drive to the Lewis Clark Valley.
Kohberger is currently being held without bail on four charges of first-degree murder.
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