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Murder In Moscow: Bryan Kohberger Claims Innocence After Pleading Guilty (7/28/26)
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Almost 13 months after pleading guilty to murdering University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, Bryan Kohberger filed a handwritten petition seeking to withdraw his plea and obtain post-conviction...
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and welcome back to the program. Brian Coburger pled guilty to murdering the Idaho 4. Well now that same scumbag, Brian Coburger is claiming that he's innocent and that the only reason that he pled guilty is because he had ineffective counsel. And for anybody who followed the story or the case, they know that that's not true. They jump through every single hoop trying to get Bryan Kohberger off. You know what Bryan Kohberger didn't have on his side and still doesn't have on his side? The truth. And that's pretty hard to overcome, especially when there's as much evidence as there was against Bryan Kohberger. But now he's making this push to try and get an appeal to try and overturn his sentence and have a new trial. And spoiler alert, I don't think he's going to be successful. So today we have an article from the Idaho Statesman and the headline, there were no appeals. So how is Kohlberger essentially appealing? Could it work? This article was authored by Alex Breezy. When Brian Kohberger admitted to stabbing four University of Idaho students to death, he was asked by the presiding judge question after question to make sure all aspects of his plea were were offered voluntarily. And they were. Of course, the convicted murderer is now claiming that wasn't the case. And despite the fact that his plea agreement included waiving his right to appeal, he's taking another legal avenue to try to get the same result. Have his guilty plea tossed out so he can pursue a trial. My prediction, the Candace Owens crowd is going to latch onto this shit. This will be their next grift. Oh, Brian Kohlberger's innocent. It's a big government cover up. 96 FBI agents broke in there and they stabbed him to death on the orders of Joe Biden. That's the kind of you hear from these people. So I wouldn't be shocked to hear it here, especially considering their high priestess can done sewing has already tried to dip her toes into the Coburger water previously. So I expect that Griff machine to really pick up. A Boise based defense attorney told the Idaho Statesman that Kohlberger's claim doesn't make a lot of sense. But how is it that Kohberger is allowed to go down this path to begin with? Here's how it breaks down. Judge Steven hippler of Idaho's 4th Judicial District stressed during a hearing last summer that he wanted to be sure that Kohberger did not plead guilty unless he actually was understood and agreed the deal, was not threatened or coerced, was satisfied with his attorney's representation and comprehended the consequences of pleading guilty. Coburger answered affirmatively every time. So look, we're gonna have to go through this dog and pony show, but in my opinion, Bryan Coburger has no shot at getting this overturned. We're not talking about a Becky Hill type situation where the court clerk came in and took a fat dump in the middle of the jury room. Nothing like that. And my guess is he's seen all this crap about Tyler Robinson and wants to get in on it, wants to make sure there's some grifting going on for him. And considering how many lemmings are willing to follow Kandun Owens off that cliff, what, you think that's not going to be the case here? It most certainly will be. And when asked whether he willfully, unlawfully, deliberately, with premeditation, and with malice aforethought, stabbed Madison Mogan, Kaylee Gonsalves, Zana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin to death after breaking into their off campus home on November 13, 2022, Coburger answered yes, four times. So if he didn't do it, if he didn't get good counsel, why would he agree to all these different stipulations? Why would he even plea in the first place? Why not go to the judge and say, look, my counsel is ineffective, they're not doing the right thing, and I can't go on with my trial right now until I have better representation? Didn't even say that. Didn't even make a peep about Ann Taylor. And in fact, I think Ann Taylor did more than any lawyer could have. Basically, she was on point. You see how frustrated everybody on the other side was. That was because Ann Taylor, she exhausted every avenue trying to get this scumbag off every last avenue, and there was nothing there. But now all of a sudden, he has a new narrative. Oh, I'm innocent. I didn't do it. All of that was just a big lie. Like what? And to anybody out there that believes this guy's bullshit, congratulations, you are dumb. As despite that, the former Washington State graduate student has now asserted that he's innocent and wants to be let out of the plea agreement, which took the death penalty off the table. Kohberger, 31, has filed a petition for post conviction relief, and the same judge who sentenced him will decide whether his claims have merit. Oh, I highly doubt that. Judge Hippler is not exactly the kind of guy to play these games. Among the consequences the judge asked Kohberger about was that he agreed to waive his right to appeal in the in the case. But that does not include the right to ask the court for post conviction relief, something any incarcerated person has the ability to do regardless of their case's circumstances. The petition is a civil remedy that allows someone convicted of a crime to contend that their sentence was a violation of the law. In fact, the US Supreme Court addressed the possibility of challenging convictions even after a defendant signs away their rights to appeal. And in Garza versus Idaho, the fact that a defendant waives the right to appeal doesn't mean they don't have the right to appeal, hipler explained in court, referring to the 2019 ruling. So it may affect the outcome of that appeal, and it may affect the underlying case and the plea agreement. But nonetheless, the right to appeal does not go away because of the waiver. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the Supreme Court's majority opinion that no appeal waiver serves as an absolute bar to all appellate claims. Well, that's true, and good luck. Have at it. Go ahead and waste everybody's time, waste everybody's resources, and your bitch ass is going to end up staying where you are, exactly where you belong. In fact, if I had my way, helicopters, volcanoes, and I'll do the pushing. Most fundamentally, Sotomayor wrote, courts agree that defendants retain the right to challenge whether the waiver itself is valid and enforceable, for example, on the grounds that it was unknowing or involuntary. Consequently, while signing an appeal waiver means giving up some, many or even most appellate claims, some claims nevertheless remain cool. Make the claim and then watch it go up in smoke. Because that's what's going to happen. And I can't wait to watch all these idiots gas people up acting like Coburger is going to get off only for that not to happen. It's going to be joyful. Very joyful.
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In a handwritten affidavit that was filed with Idaho's court system, Coburger alleged that he was convinced to falsely confess to the burglary and for murder charges by coercion, disinformation, false promises and the withholding of, of exculpatory discovery. He was convinced that actual guilt was not an important factor in accepting his plea deal as he could have faced the death penalty. He wrote and was advised to lie. Oh, I'm sure that that's happened. I'm sure that Ann Taylor told them to lie. Is this guy for real? Like, honestly, guess what? The meter was running so Aunt Taylor was going to get paid. From her perspective, at least financially speaking, it would have been a good thing for this trial to continue. But sure, I'm sure that Ann Taylor was just like, you know what, Brian? Lie and we can just, you know, get on with our lives. Those claims, which mainly fall under the umbrella of ineffective assistance of counsel, are hard to prove. Edwina L. Cox, a Boise based defense attorney, told the Statesman Coburger had a team of well respected attorneys who filed dozens of motions covering many, many potential avenues and were able to get the death penalty taken off the table. Something she called an incredible defense victory for sure. And I think the court's going to see it that way. Now Kohberger is entitled to make whatever argument he wants, but I'm entitled to tell him I don't believe his argument. And guess what? There's no alleged here. This piece of murdered them. So if you think I'm going to say alleged when I'm talking about ass Brian Kohberger, you got another thing coming. This rotten, dirty son of a is trying to cause more pain, more suffering and put himself back in the spotlight. That's what he's doing. It just seems to me to be an incredulous claim, she told the statesman of Coburger's post conviction relief move. L. Cox particularly pointed to one of Coburger's claims in the filing that his attorneys failed to inform him about a supposed clump of unknown hair found in Ethan Chapin's hand. Something that seemed unlikely to her. It was one of dozens of samples that were examined by investigators microscopically. According to a lab report from the FBI, none of the samples match Kohberger's hair. But one of the defense own experts, Sy Ray, wrote in a report that the hair was morphologically consistent with Chapin's own hair. If there really was a bombshell piece of evidence, Kohberger's attorneys would have chased it down and vetted it, Elcox said. She noted that some people might try to frame this as exculpatory evidence, but she doesn't agree with that at all. And I don't either and I doubt the court's going to. So now that this is back in the news, Obviously we're going to be talking about it, and we'll follow along wherever it goes, and maybe we have to dive into some more court documents and see what's what. But as far as Bryan Kohlberger saying that he. He wasn't given a fair shake, that things went in a direction that was unfair, that is just false, and I wholly disagree with it. Now, does that mean that he shouldn't get, you know, another crack here? If that's what the system says he's allowed to do? No, go for it. You want to waste your time, you want to waste everybody else's time, cool. But I think when all is said and done, Brian Coburger's ass is going to remain exactly where he is. And in my opinion, he should feel lucky about that. Because if this did go to trial, does anyone out there really believe that a jury in Idaho wasn't convicting him and sending him to the death chamber? Because in my opinion, that was the likeliest scenario. So we'll follow along. We'll see what Bryan Coburger has to say. But I think when all said and done, this clown's on a long road to nowhere. All the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box.