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Murder In Moscow: Greg Rauch Appointed to Represent Bryan Kohberger By The State Of Idaho (8/4/26)
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Bryan Kohberger was appointed a new attorney to represent him as he attempts to withdraw the guilty plea that resulted in four consecutive life sentences for the murders of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle...
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What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the program. A couple of days ago, we found out that Bryan Coburger was appointed a new lawyer by the state of Idaho. Well, now we're finding out a little bit more about who that lawyer is. At the very least, a name. And can you imagine being this poor sob? You're just hanging out, doing your job. You're a public defender or whatever, or you take clients as part of your pro bono work, and this comes across your desk. That would be my luck. I'm the kind of person that would luck out and end up having to defend somebody like Bryan Kohberger. Now, look, he deserves to have a lawyer, right? He deserves to have some legal representation. I get it. But, man, that has to be a tough job, especially considering that Bryan Coburger's own experts have turned on him. At least Irae. And. And I mean, as a defense attorney, you start reading stuff like that, seeing stuff like that, can't exactly inspire a lot of confidence in your new client. So today we have an article from Fox News, and the headline, brian Kohberger gets new attorney appointed after he asked court for post conviction relief in Idaho Murders. Yo, I'm glad I'm not paying taxes up in Idaho. As much as I understand why he has to get a lawyer appointed by the taxpayer. Doesn't mean I'd like it. Doesn't mean I'd want to pay for it. Look, I have two rules. Leave me alone, and I don't want to pay for it. And when it comes to Coburger and this new appeal, he's ticking both those boxes, right? Especially if you're a taxpayer in Idaho. Now, the rest of us can take a look at it and say, you know what, that's shitty. But if you're somebody that's living there and now you're paying for a lawyer again for Brian Kohberger, I get it. I understand why people would be upset about that. But that said, he deserves legal representation. That's the way the system's set up. And in my opinion, I don't see this dragging on. I see the court taking a look at what Brian Kohlberger has to say and telling him to kick rocks. So I don't see this being something that's going to take a long period of time and cost a whole bunch of extra money. This article was authored by Michael Ruiz. Brian Coburger 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 of 2022. Coburger, 30, and is now being represented by attorney Greg Roush of Moscow, Idaho. Rouch told Fox News Digital he hasn't read the petition, the case file, or spoken to Coburger yet. He was just appointed Monday morning and said he expects to speak with Co Burger over the phone in the near future and then visit him in prison to talk face to face. I can't even imagine. Again, look, I get it. These guys are lawyers, they're professionals, and most of them have dealt with really scummy people. But Brian Coburger is a different kind of scumbag. In my opinion, he's a serial killer, or at least has all the makings of it. And if he was never caught for these crimes, he definitely would have killed again. I 100% believe that. And considering the evidence that's been collected against him, the evidence that we were privy to, Bryan Kohberger is going to have a very hard time changing that narrative now. There's going to be people out there that are willing to bite. Right, because people want to look at this as some form of entertainment. Oh, Coburger's innocent. He's trying. He's getting railroaded by the government. Oh, the FBI showed up. It was Chupacabras. It was Bigfoot. No, it wasn't. Sometimes it just is what it is. And in my opinion, this is one of those times. Today, my goal is to set up phone contact with him. Rouch said, I gotta read the case file. I gotta check out the police reports. I gotta talk to him. Coburger 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. And if Coburger succeeds here, how many other criminals are going to follow that blueprint? Oh, well, Coburger did it. Why can't I? And as we all know, unless there's an egregious violation by the court, very rarely are these kinds of convictions overturned. I mean, look at Glenn Maxwell. She went crazy over Scotty David. And how did that turn out for her? And not just locally, but all the way up the ladder, all the way to the Supreme Court. So if Brian Coburger thinks he's going to have an easy ride here or that he's going to be able to, you know, make some moves, I think he's going to be disappointed. And I Think he knows that. The motivation here, in my opinion, is to be cruel to the families. And I think that's exactly what Bryan Coburger is doing. Coburger pleaded guilty in July of 2025 to four counts of first degree murder, as well as a charge of burglary. Judge Stephen Hippler sentenced him to four consecutive terms of life without the possibility of, of parole, plus another 10 years, you know, 10 more years for good measure. There's not enough years in the history of years for this dude to be punished correctly. Helicopters, volcanoes. That's the proper punishment for people that are deranged. You know that you have cars that come out of the factory that are lemons. Sometimes you have people that are lemons. They're born up. And in my opinion, Bryan Kohberger is one of those people. The plea deal required Coburger to waive his right to appeal. However, that doesn't block him from seeking post conviction relief, which could reopen the case if successful. Yo, if he's successful, I'd be shocked if we didn't see the families engage in some kind of law abiding citizen type. And I'm only half kidding when I say that. I mean, can you imagine being the family member of one of these kids who was murdered and this scumbag gets up there with that stupid grin, that dumb face of his and says he wants to take the plea back. It's unconscionable. It really is. Then again, you look at the person that's doing it and you understand what's going on. Because Bryan Coburger certainly is a sick, demented son of a bitch. If he succeeds in withdrawing his guilty plea, the case could go to trial where he would face the potential death penalty. So he killed four people. Right. They should give him the death penalty, but bring him right to the brink of death three times and then bring him back and then on the fourth time finally do away with them. I mean, he killed four people, right? Coburger, in a handwritten petition on July 27, 2026, claimed that he was convinced to falsely confess by his high profile defense team of Ann Taylor, Alyssa Massoff and Biko Barlow. He alleged they didn't tell him about exculpatory discovery hair found at the scene that was not tested for DNA. It was excluded as Coburger's by a physical analysis. Ridiculous. You know how many people were in that house all the time he wants you to look at that and say, oh, no, it's not Coburger. What about the other evidence? What about all the digital evidence? What about the DNA? What about everything that led up to it? All of it has to be looked at in total. Right? It's not just one piece of evidence. And I think that's what a lot of people fail to realize in these kinds of cases. They get fixated on one piece of evidence. My friends, I'm telling you, it's going to take a lot more to convict or get somebody off than one piece of evidence. Unless, of course, it's consequential as and that's certainly not the case here. Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador told Fox News Digital shortly after Coburger's petition was filed that his office is ready to do whatever is necessary to ensure justice is fully carried out. Well, I would hope so considering you have a four time murderer sitting in your prison who's asking to get released now or get a new trial. I would hope that the attorney general's office is ready to go. Police found Coburger's DNA on a knife sheath in a bed with two of the four victims, Mogan and Gonsalves. They also tracked his vehicle coming and going. And forensic investigators were prepared to testify about how although he shut his phone off during the murders, the evidence suggested he drove to and from the crime scene anyway. And it's all damning. When you look at all that evidence, it goes beyond a reasonable doubt. And I know that if I was a juror and I saw the evidence that they provided, Bryan Kohberger was definitely getting the death penalty without a doubt. Now look, things can happen in trial, right? We can get a surprise here or there, but I'm pretty confident that Coburger was cooked and the truth is, so was he. The only reason that he's doing this, in my opinion, is to be cruel. That's it. It has nothing to do with guilt or innocence or that he got screwed. He knows he didn't get screwed and he knows that they had the evidence to convict him. That's why he accepted a plea. He wasn't coerced. Separately, sy' Ray, a former expert witness working for Kohberger's defense team, last week alleged that there's additional damaging evidence that investigators hadn't introduced before Bryan Kohberger's guilty plea. They've got to release this report because the report that changes everything has not been released, ray told Fox News Digital on Sunday. It hasn't been unsealed. That's interesting and I'd love to see it and I hope that it gets unsealed soon. So we can dive into it. Ray said that the document known as the Location Database of Record, or LOCD report contains pattern of life location data that he alleges shows Coburger stalked the victims, that he may have been inside the victim's home before the murders, and contains clues as to where he may have disposed of evidence. Well, that would be huge, but like everything else, take it with a grain of salt until we have the evidence for ourselves and we can see it. That's always my advice. If he ever does walk, he will kill again, he said. Well, I certainly agree with that. When you have the kind of sociopathy that Bryan Coburger has, yeah, that's definitely gonna happen. So now that he has this lawyer, my guess is we're gonna start to see some motions get filed both ways. And when those motions do get filed, we'll get those motions added to the catalog and we'll certainly discuss them. As for this one, well, that's gonna do it. 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