If society is not ready to support suppression of every bit of our DNA when the government does not have a warrant and ...

Judge Steven Hippler did not render any decisions, but two days of hearings revealed new information in the Idaho student ...

During a two-day hearing that happened on Thursday, Kohberger's defense team argued for the dismissal of DNA evidence linked ...

Defense and media argue for open hearing, but Hippler says his decision is meant to protect the jury pool from being ...

On Friday, the court will hear additional arguments from both the prosecution and defense regarding the use of DNA evidence ...

Determinations on the legal issues could have broad implications for crime-solving tactics, and how detectives must conduct ...

Hippler was appointed to oversee the trial, replacing Judge John Judge, when the trial moved from Latah County to Boise after ...

Those SNPs, or "snips," are then uploaded to a genealogy database like GEDmatch or FamilyTreeDNA to look for possible relatives of the person whose DNA was found at the scene. In Kohberger's case ...

Kohberger is back in court Friday morning. Among the issues, Taylor argued that authorities should have gotten warrants before running DNA searches with Othram and the FBI, as well as before they ...

Attorney Anne Taylor, right center, for defendant Bryan Kohberger, argues to exclude DNA evidence before Judge Steven Hippler, bottom, Thursday in 4th Judicial District Court in Ada County.

Kohberger faces four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary in the November 2022 stabbing deaths of ...