Murder In Moscow: Bryan Kohberger Gets New October Court Date in Bid to Undo Guilty Plea (9/9/26)

0:00What's up everyone and welcome back to the program. In this episode, we're going to spin back up the Moscow and we're going to check in on the newest development when it comes to Brian Colbergor and his bid to overturn his plea deal. And previously he had a court date schedule for next year. Well, now he has a court date scheduled for October 15th. And if you recall, he's trying to get Judge Hitler thrown off the case because he says that Judge Hitler is not an impartial person and that the commentary that Judge Hitler made should be more than enough to get him removed. So today we have an article from the New York Post and the headline. Brian Colbergor gets new court date and pushed to overturn plea deal in University of Idaho Murders. This article was authored by Zoe Hussein. Convicted killer Brian Colbergor and his attorneys have been granted a new court date amid his bid to overturn his plea deal and stand trial in the University of Idaho's Langs. While Brian Colbergor should just say that he's crazy,

1:01that's what I would do. Look, I was suffering from a psychiatric break and I had no idea what I was doing. I mean, it worked up in Massachusetts, right? Colbergor's defense team and prosecutors will return to the Ada County Courthouse on October 15th to discuss the former criminology students push to disqualify Judge Stephen Hitler from presiding over his post-conviction case, according to court records. I don't think they're going to be successful here, but you know what, you never know. And like I've said from the very beginning, I'm willing to follow the evidence wherever it goes. If Brian Colbergor has evidence that shows us he's innocent, I'd love to see it. But we're going on what? Five years now? And he hasn't produced a single thing that I would call evidence. Whereas on the other side, there's an abundance of evidence that we've been privy to, especially after the plea deal, that point directly to Brian Colbergor. So if he has something that would, you know, change the scope of things, let's see it. Hitler sentenced Colbergor 31 to

2:05four life sentences without parole for the November 2022 fatal stabings of four University of Idaho students, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, Zana Kernotl, and Kaylegan Solvis. After he admitted to the murders in a July 2025 plea hearing. Imagine getting up there and admitting that you did this, and then a year later you're like, hey, you know what? Maybe not. I'm not really digging this whole entire life sentence thing. So maybe just maybe I'll try to get this plea deal thrown out. And the fact that there's a pathway to do that is unbelievable. If you get up in open court and you admit that you killed four people, three people, whatever, I really don't ever want to hear from you again. Unless there is some kind of bombshell-ass evidence you have, short of that, take your sentence and enjoy it. Because you've earned it. If you kill four people, you're lucky that all you're getting is a life sentence. Because in my opinion, helicopters, volcanoes.

3:06The new October court hearing comes soon after Hitler scheduled a status conference and have a dentary hearing for Colberger in June of 2027. So that was the first hearing that we heard about. And now this one's on the docket too. And this one's next month. And I'm wondering if they're going to have the cameras in the courtroom for this. Probably not, but they should. In a handwritten affidavit filed by Colberger this summer, the admitted murderer claimed his former legal team, Miss Letom, and his family, about the damning evidence before he pleaded to the heinous quadruple homicide. Oh yeah, they totally misled him. There wasn't a bunch of evidence that pointed directly to Brian Colberger. This dumbfuck didn't leave the sheath there or nothing. Nah, that didn't happen. They had nothing to go on. And Brian Colberger just, you know, decided to plead guilty because his legal team didn't know what they were doing. Does that sound logical to anybody, especially when you know who his legal team was? And the lengths they went to get them off. But all of a sudden,

4:07Brian Colberger didn't get a fair deal. He didn't get a fair shake. Have you ever heard about cleafbrowder? You want to talk about people not getting a fair shake? Boy, it's Mr. Cleafbrowder. Colberger alleged that coercion disinformation falls promises, and the withholding of ex-colpatory discovery bullied him into entering a bogus plea deal on July 2nd, 2025, according to a legal petition obtained by the New York Times. And look, as somebody that followed this case, from literally the day it happened, I don't believe that for a minute. Colberger and his team were given everything they asked for. Then you change more money, more experts, you name it. And Brian Colberger had some of the best legal counsel in the whole state. But all of a sudden, that's not good enough. All of a sudden, Brian Colberger was coerced. Brian Colberger didn't know what he was getting into. I have no idea how he thinks he's going to convince the court that that happened, unless he has the evidence to back it up. And as of now, well, we have not seen that evidence.

5:13The killer's defense team has been moving to disqualify Hitler, citing remarks he made during Colberger sentencing that signal he may not have impartiality, and move the case from Aida County back to LaTaw County, KTVB reported. And remember, it was reverse last time. Oh, we can't get a fair shake in LaTaw County. We have to move it to Aida County. I mean, give me a break. And now it's, oh, well, Aida County don't work. Let's go back to LaTaw County, all on the dime of the taxpayer. I'm sure that's exactly what people in Aida whole want to do, spend more money on Bichaz, Brian Colberger. Colberger's counsel claims that moving the case to a different county could stave off the media frenzy surrounding the brutal stabbings, which has made it difficult to find and unbiased venue. The outlet said, oh, yeah, everybody's biased against my client. Oh, no, Brian Colberger, everybody heard the story. No shit, it's the year 2026. Everybody has the internet. Everybody has a cell phone. Everybody's on the, you know, doom scroll on a regular basis. You're not going to find people that don't know about the case.

6:17And that's why selecting a jury is so important because the days of finding jurors who have not been exposed to the information that those days are long over and it really doesn't matter the case. Like everybody's connected. And if there's any kind of case with any kind of publicity, you have to expect that people are going to be following along. And some of those people might be in your jury pool. Prosecutors already filed a motion to dismiss the case, stating that Colberger's own admissions in a written factual basis document may pose a hurdle, people reported. In the document, Colberger stated that he's willing to hear by admit responsibility for the killing of the four university of Idaho students in their off campus Moscow home. The outlet said, he also admitted that the killing and murder of his victims was willful, unlawful, deliberate, with premeditation and with malice, a forethought. So in other words, I put thought into it. I premeditated it. I knew what I was doing and then I murdered these four kids. That's what that means. And now all of a

7:22sudden, miraculously, that's not what happened. Book up one day and you've decided, oh, I have a better idea. It wasn't me. It was Colonel Mustard with the candlestick. I mean, what are we doing here? Like he never put forward an alternate perpetrator. There was never any cogent argument that somebody else did this. And all roads pointed to Brian Colberger. So I don't understand what they think they're going to magically come up with this time around. Because remember, we have access to all the work. We've been looking at documents. We've been reading unsealed, you know, information from the case. And none of it looks good for Brian Colberger. And every single time that is defense attempted to challenge the evidence that was provided against him, it literally ended up going nowhere. And I think that moving forward with all of that in hindsight, the court's going to be very, very, very hesitant to give Brian Colberger what he wants. Now that said, if new evidence is

8:27presented and he has something to show us, yo, I am willing to look at it. Because at the end of the day, it's not about Brian Colberger. Is it? It's about justice for those four kids. And if Brian Colberger is not the guy who did it, then who, who did it? Who's responsible? Who should be in prison instead of you? I mean, look at what Karen Reed did. And at the very least, she had a viable, even if you hardly believed it, alternate perpetrator theory. Meanwhile, Brian Colberger, his alibi was that he was out staring at stars. You know, I like the night sky. So I was out on a cloudy night looking at stars. Yeah, that's a, that's a solid ass alibi. That's really selling me if I'm on the jury, buddy. I got bad news for you. You're about to have a date with the firing squad. Colberger then pleaded guilty in court as part of a plea deal that spared him the death penalty, but stipulated that he agree, never to appeal his case, only giving him the chance of a new trial

9:29through a petition for post-conviction relief. If granted, a new trial and convicted, Colberger will likely face the death penalty, the outlet said. And look, if he makes that stupid mistake and really tries to push this point home, he should be facing the death penalty. And I think that if they prosecute the case and it gets to a jury, that's exactly what we're going to see. Because in my opinion, and look again, just my opinion, everything that we've seen so far points directly to Brian Colberger. And when something looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, well, chances are it's not a fucking tiger, right? So unless Brian Colberger has something new to share, some sort of revelation that none of us are aware of, then I think that he's just spinning his wheels in neutral. But in a month from now, when we have this hearing, we should learn a little bit more. And like usual, once we have that information, we'll get it updated in the catalog. All the information that goes with this episode can be found

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