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Bryan Kohberger Seeks Judge Steven Hippler’s Removal in Guilty Plea Challenge (8/31/26)
Bryan Kohberger is escalating his effort to undo his guilty plea by asking for Judge Steven Hippler to be removed from his post-conviction case and for the proceedings to be moved out of Ada County. Kohberger’s new court-appointed attorney, Gregory Rauch, argues that Hippler can no longer be viewed as impartial because of the combination of his prior rulings, his rejection of defense claims that Kohberger’s trial team was unprepared, and comments he made at sentencing questioning Kohberger’s honesty and character. The motion points specifically to Hippler calling Kohberger a “faceless coward”…
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