Kohberger seeks judge's removal, venue change in bid to withdraw guilty plea

In the aftermath of a conviction that seemed to close one of the most watched criminal cases in recent American memory, Bryan Kohberger — found guilty of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022 — has set the legal machinery in motion once more. Through new counsel, he now claims his guilty plea was not a free act of conscience but a coerced surrender, a distinction that, if credited by the courts, could reopen questions that many believed were already answered. The pursuit of justice, as it so often does, reveals itself to be not a destination but a continuing negotiation be