An Idaho judge has denied Bryan Kherberger’s request Bringing Defense experts in to give a testimony against the theories of the prosecutor about his movements and the Amazon store.
“Want to transfer the information department can be presented by statements,” wrote Judge Steven Hippler in an order on Tuesday. “The lawyer may have the witnesses available through the hearing during the hearing and, if the court finds that it is necessary to hear from the witness, the court can allow such a witness through video live stream.”
An expert is David Howell, who intended to call the defense as part of Kherberger’s bid to have his Amazon -WinkelRecords And “click on activity” hidden from jury members.
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Bryan Kherberger enters the courtroom for a hearing in the Latah County Courthouse on 27 June 2023 in Moscow, Idaho. Kherberger is accused of killing four students from the University of Idaho in November 2022. (Augustus Frank-Pool/Getty Images)
Lawyer Elisa Massoth argued that no Amazon certificate, including “click activity” in the app, may be introduced during the trial – partly because the term is vague and because officers have reportedly not defined or the nature of experts who want to introduce officers of justice.
“The refinement through the state of all Amazon history and Amazon -click activity is outside the context, incomplete and unfairly detrimental, making it not receptive,” she continued.
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Massoth argued that too Amazon’s AI-driven algorithm “Forms user behavior” by serving products, predicts that shoppers would be interested in addition to paid advertisements.
Madison may, in the top left, laughs on the shoulders of her best friend, Kaylee Goncalves, posing with Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and two other housemates in the last Instagram Post of Goncalves, shared the day before the four students were stung. (@kayleegoncalves/Instagram)
The suspected murder weapon was not found, but authorities have found a KA-bar Mesmes under one The Body of the Victim That reportedly had Kherberger’s Dna -Mesmes.
The Amazon records have not been made public, but may be able to show a KA-Bar purchase: NBC’s “Dateline” reported in 2023 that Kherberger bought a KA-bar knife about Amazon in 2022 before moving to Pullman, Washington to go to Washington State University. The report is not independently verified.
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A screenshot from Amazon.com shows a ka-bar knife for sale for less than $ 100 on the shopping website. (Amazon)
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The identified order from the other expert Hippler was Sy Ryan, which could be a reference to Sy Ray, an expert in the field of geofencing and tracking movements via telephone data.
Neither authorities nor the main lawyer of Kherberger, Anne Taylor, responded immediately to a request for clarification.
The defense was planning to call Ray in response to the analysis and interpretation of FBI agent Nicholas Balance of telephone tower and call records, which the Kherberger team as ‘seriously defective’.
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Four students from the University of Idaho were found dead on Sunday, November 13, 2022. (Angela Palermo/Idaho Statesman/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
The defense has asked separately to have a ballance blocked as a witness expert.
Both witnesses were expected to testify during a motion hearing of April 9.
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Kherberger is planned to be tried on 11 August in connection with the Staked deaths Van Madison Mag, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20. The four students from the University of Idaho were all killed in an invasion of 4 hours at home on November 13, 2022.
Kherberger studied for a Ph.D. In criminology at neighboring Washington State University.
He is confronted with four accusations of murder in the first degree, one of burglary, and could undergo the death penalty if they are convicted. A judge introduced non-guilty supplications on behalf of his preliminary guide in May 2023.
