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Bryan Kohberger is trying to withdraw his guilty plea and win a new trial — and he seems not to have priced what winning would cost him.
He traded a trial for his life. The agreement he signed in the Idaho student murders took the death penalty off the table in exchange for four consecutive life sentences and a waiver of his right to appeal. Now he wants the agreement gone.
If a judge vacated that plea, the deal dissolves — and legal experts told Newsweek that Kohberger would be facing capital punishment all over again. One former federal prosecutor called the attempt foolish, and said that if this case were actually tried, there is a very good chance he is convicted and sentenced to death. Idaho's attorney general said his office stands ready to do whatever is necessary.
So the lawyer Kohberger is calling ineffective is the one who got the needle taken away, and saving his life is the failure he is alleging.
Tony lays out how he got here. A witness list filed by prosecutors weeks before trial. A name on it that changed the math. A guilty plea entered days later, under oath, with the judge asking him point blank whether he actually committed these crimes because he didn't want the man confessing to something he hadn't done.
And then, thirteen months later, five handwritten pages saying none of it was true.
The petition is not frivolous and there is a real statute behind it. But there is a difference between a door being open and a man being able to walk through it. This episode is about exactly where that line falls, and what four families are being asked to sit through while it plays out.

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The Lindsay Clancy trial spent a day in the world of lab coats and evidence logs, and it was no less devastating for it. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and attorney Kevin Reddington is arguing an insanity defense centered on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.
Plymouth Superior Court Judge William F. Sullivan started afternoon proceedings by reading the stipulations prosecution and defense had already agreed on regarding the children's toxicology findings. Then the state called its scientists. Alicia Zimmermann of the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab explained how toxicology testing is conducted when the deceased is a child — a process that demands its own protocols, not adult ones scaled down. Sherri Crook, who supervises the State Police Crime Scene Response unit, followed with a breakdown of blood spatter analysis, distinguishing spatter from pooling from smearing, and mapping those categories onto the physical evidence recovered at the Clancy home.
This is the unglamorous backbone of a strangulation prosecution — chain-of-custody science, pattern interpretation, and testimony that doesn't editorialize because it doesn't have to. Prosecutors Jennifer Sprague and Shanan Buckingham are using it to build a factual floor under the state's case. The defense still has to get the jury from "this happened" to "she didn't know it was wrong." That gap is where this trial will actually be decided. Proceedings continue in Plymouth Superior Court.

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Two witnesses with very different vantage points took the stand this week in the Lindsay Clancy trial — one clinical, one procedural, both consequential. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation over the deaths of her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — who prosecutors allege she strangled with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She's pleaded not guilty, and her attorney, Kevin Reddington, is arguing an insanity defense centered on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.
Sgt. Robert Flynn of the Duxbury Police Department testified he was present when State Police executed the search warrant at the home, and told the court there was no damage to the window or screen — a detail that's going to matter a great deal to anyone tracking the physical evidence around Clancy's alleged fall. Flynn confirmed State Police took over the investigation after that.
Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Jhilam Biswas described her initial assessment of Clancy, focused on evaluating her safety and state of mind. Biswas told the court psychosis symptoms present differently from person to person, but said that during the roughly 20 minutes she communicated with Clancy, she observed no signs of active psychosis.
Clancy is accused of attempting suicide after the killings, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial is underway in Plymouth Superior Court and is expected to run several weeks.

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In 2021, a twenty-nine-year-old Black man named Damien Cameron was restrained by Rankin County sheriff's deputies and transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Mississippi's chief medical examiner, Dr. Staci Turner, performed the autopsy. Her own findings documented internal bleeding in his neck consistent with compression injuries. She ruled the death "undetermined."Three national forensic pathologists — including former NYC chief medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden and Rutgers forensic pathology chief Dr. Zhongxue Hua — independently reviewed the case at the request of the New York Times and Mississippi Today. All three concluded the death was a homicide. A grand jury relied on Turner's ruling and declined to indict the deputies. One of them — Hunter Elward — is now serving federal time for the "Goon Squad" torture cases.That same medical examiner performed Nolan Wells' autopsy on July 7. Those results remain sealed. The independent autopsy came back undetermined with significant limitations. And the family's attorney — Ben Crump — is the same attorney who represented Cameron's family and now represents Trey Reed's family in another disputed Turner ruling.Even a perfect autopsy from this office, in this framework, won't be believed. That's not the family's fault. That's what happens when institutions lose credibility and nobody in power fixes it.
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Three witnesses, one clear throughline: what was documented at the scene, and what was actually in Lindsay Clancy's system. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is on trial for strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and attorney Kevin Reddington is arguing insanity, built on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.
Trooper Johnathon O'Loughlin testified first, detailing the photographs, drawings, and notes he took cataloguing items of interest — the groundwork for everything that followed. Then the lab took over. Hillary Griffiths of the Crime Lab's toxicology unit testified to which drugs were actually present in Clancy's blood at the time. Lisa Yelle, who worked toxicology at the lab when this happened, described the "general unknown screens" run on both blood and urine — panels that check for hundreds of substances and come back simply detected or not-detected. It's about as unemotional as testimony gets, and that's exactly why it carries weight.
For a defense built on overmedication, this is the testimony that either backs the theory up or forces a harder conversation. Prosecutors Jennifer Sprague and Shanan Buckingham are letting the lab work do the talking. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. The trial continues before Judge William F. Sullivan in Plymouth Superior Court.

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