Court filings detailing how the mental health records of accused killer Bryan Kohberger will be handled in court are set to be unsealed, according to a judge's ruling.
"After reviewing the matter with the parties, the Court could find no compelling basis to maintain these documents as sealed findings," the Jan. 30 ruling by Judge Steven Hippler states.
The documents that the judge ordered unsealed detail how Kohberger's medical and mental health records will be disclosed and used in legal proceedings by both the prosecution and the defense. Those filings were previously sealed in two separate motions, but the new ruling should allow the release of those filings to the public.
Kohberger is accused of stabbing to death four University of Idaho students: Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20 and Ethan Chapin, 20. The attack occurred at an off-campus house the morning of Nov. 13 2022. At the time of the incident, Kohberger was a Ph.D criminology student at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, located about eight miles from the crime scene.
Kohberger's trial is scheduled to begin at the end of July with jury selection. The trial will be in Boise, Idaho after defense attorneys successfully argued for a change of venue.
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— Jennifer Coffindaffer (@CoffindafferFBI) February 4, 2025
The judge unsealed the mental health records of Bryan Kohberger and his family.
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*Correction*
The initial version of this article stated that the medical records of Bryan Kohberger were to be unsealed after a judges ruling. The article has been corrected to clarify that court filings describing how Mr. Kohberger's records would be handled in legal proceedings, rather than the medial records themselves, would be unsealed.
