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Bryan Kohberger’s defense and Idaho prosecutors spent months fighting over whether his capital murder trial should be delayed, with his attorneys repeatedly arguing that the sheer volume of discovery, unfinished mitigation work and intense publicity made the existing schedule unrealistic. That dispute became especially sharp in 2025, when the defense asked Judge Steven Hippler to continue the trial, saying lawyers still had massive amounts of evidence to review, penalty-phase preparation remained incomplete and recent media coverage threatened Kohberger’s right to a fair proceeding. Prosecutors strongly opposed another delay, arguing that Kohberger had been arrested in December 2022, indicted in May 2023 and already had years to prepare. In the state’s words, it was simply time to try the case.


Judge Hippler ultimately sided with prosecutors and denied the continuance. In his June 26, 2025 order, he found that Kohberger had not shown good cause for postponing the trial or demonstrated that his substantial rights would be prejudiced if the case moved forward as scheduled. The ruling capped a long-running scheduling battle that had started much earlier, when Anne Taylor argued that a proposed March 2025 trial date was impossible because of the enormous amount of discovery, while prosecutors pushed for firm deadlines and resisted an open-ended delay. The fight reflected one of the central tensions throughout the pretrial process: the defense wanted more time to digest a massive capital case, while the state argued that the victims’ families and the public had already waited long enough.



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