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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Gallup-McKinley County Schools Terminates Contract with Stride/K12 Citing Severe Academic and Legal Violations
District Prioritizes Student Success Over Corporate Profits; Initiates Transition to New Online Learning Model GALLUP, N.M., May 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Gallup-McKinley County Schools (GMCS) announced the termination of its educational services contract with Stride Inc. (formerly K12 Inc.), effective June 30. This action, taken during a special School Board meeting, follows months of documented legal and academic violations, including failure to comply with New Mexico law on student-teacher ratios, high student turnover, declining graduation rates, and some of the lowest academic proficiency scores in the state. GMCS School Board President Chris Mortensen stated, "Our students deserve educational providers that prioritize their academic success, not corporate profit margins. Putting profits above kids was damaging to our students, and we refuse to be complicit in that failure any longer." Stride CEO James Rhyu has admitted to failing to meet New Mexico's legal requirements for teacher-student ratios, an issue that GMCS suspects was not isolated. "We have reason to believe that Stride has raised student-teacher ratios not just in New Mexico but nationwide," said Mortensen. "If true, this could have inflated Stride's annual profit margins by hundreds of millions of dollars. That would mean corporate revenues and stock prices benefited at the expense of students and in some cases, in defiance of the law." The harm inflicted was particularly egregious in Gallup-McKinley County, one of the most impoverished regions in the United States, where Stride's online learning model served a majority-minority, low-income student population. "These are students who rely most on educational opportunity, and they were let down," Mortensen said. The data reveals a troubling decline: Graduation rates in GMCS's Stride-managed online program plunged from 55.79% in 2022 to just 27.67% in 2024. Student turnover reached an alarming 30%. New Mexico state math proficiency scores for Stride students dropped dramatically, falling to just 5.6%. Ghost enrollments and a lack of individualized instruction further compromised student learning. Despite numerous warnings and efforts by the district to support corrective action, Stride/K12 repeatedly failed to improve. The School Board unanimously approved the contract termination and has authorized its attorneys to pursue arbitration for damages. Stride's legal attempt to block the termination through a Temporary Restraining Order was rejected in an early morning hearing by the New Mexico District Court in Aztec. These issues echo national patterns exposed by The New York Times, which revealed that Stride and similar companies have too often sacrificed educational quality in pursuit of investor returns. Internal audits cited in the Times article showed leadership ignored clear red flags in favor of aggressive enrollment and revenue growth. "Gallup-McKinley County Schools students were used to prop up Stride's bottom line," said Mortensen. "This district, like many others, trusted Stride to deliver education. Instead, we got negligence cloaked in corporate branding." GMCS is now focused on the transition to a new online learning model rooted in integrity, compliance, transparency, and student success. The district is working directly with families to ensure continued academic support during the transition. Expanded special education oversight and local accountability will be central to the district's new direction. For additional updates, visit View original content: SOURCE Gallup-McKinley County Schools
Daily Mail
28-04-2025
- Daily Mail
Tragic last minute decision that may have cost Idaho murder victims their lives
Tragic new details have emerged about a last-minute decision made by some of the University of Idaho murder victims that may have shaped the events of that fateful night. In a new court order in the capital murder case against suspected quadruple killer Bryan Kohberger, the judge revealed that victims Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen almost left their student home in Moscow, Idaho, in the early hours of November 13, 2022. The two best friends and their two surviving roommates - Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke - discussed going to get a late-night snack from a food truck at around 2am. Ultimately, the four women decided to just go to bed - a fateful decision that placed them inside the home when the killer broke in a short time later. At around 4am that morning, Goncalves, Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were all brutally stabbed to death in an attack that shocked America and plunged the small college town into fear. Funke and Mortensen lived to tell the tale - and are now expected to be key witnesses in the case against Kohberger. With his trial looming this August, the defense and prosecution have been sparring over critical evidence in the case including DNA evidence and the harrowing 911 call made by the surviving roommates when the bloodbath was discovered. In a blow to Kohberger's case, Judge Steven Hippler ruled Thursday that jurors will be able to hear the 911 call and see the panicked texts exchanged between the surviving roommates after Mortensen came face-to-face with a masked intruder inside the home. In the order, the judge unveiled the most detailed timeline to date about the final hours of the four victims and their surviving roommates. The four victims and their roommates had all spent the night of Saturday November 12 out at bars or parties. At around 2am, Mortensen, Funke, Goncalves and Mogen were back at the home on 1122 King Road. They all 'met up in Kaylee's bedroom and talked for while before going to bed,' the document states. At that moment, the four young women almost decided to leave the home that was targeted soon after, the document states. 'The roommates debated going out to a food truck for a late snack, prompting [Mortensen] to send a text at 2:10am to an Uber driver she knew to see if he was driving,' it reads. Kernodle and Chapin - who had been at a frat party - were not home yet. Goncalves and Mogen had already visited the Grub Truck food truck on their way home from the Corner Club bar that night, and had been captured on its Twitch streaming platform. Ultimately, the four women decided against going to get food and went to bed instead. The two best friends are seen ordering food from the Grub Truck on its Twitch streaming platform Funke went to her room on the first floor, Mortensen to hers on the second floor, and best friends Goncalves and Mogen on the third floor. Kernodle's bedroom was on the second floor. According to investigators, at around 4am, Mortensen heard strange noises in the home - followed by a man's voice, that was not Chapin, saying something to the effect of 'It's okay, I'm going to help you.' When she peered round her bedroom door, she saw a man walk past her room on the second floor and head in the direction of the back sliding door. The intruder, she described, was tall, dressed in all black and was wearing a mask. Due to the mask, Mortensen could only see the eyes and eyebrows of the figure, and recalled seeing his 'bushy eyebrows.' Following that terrifying encounter, Mortensen placed a series of panicked calls and texts to her roommates. Only Funke answered. The others were already dead. Between 4.22am and 4.26am, Mortensen and Funke exchanged a string of texts where they frantically tried to determine what was going on in their home. Mortensen then ran to Funke's room on the first floor. In a bombshell revelation, the judge's order described how Mortensen saw Kernodle's body on the floor on her way - mere minutes after coming face-to-face with the masked killer. But Mortensen thought her roommate was drunk and carried on towards Funke's room, where they stayed until daylight. 'On her way, she noticed Xana lying on the floor of her bedroom, with her head towards the wall and her feet toward to the door. D.M. thought Xana was drunk,' the records state. Over the next eight hours, Mortensen's cellphone data shows she made several more texts and calls to her roommates, while also creating, editing and deleting images and videos, and accessing various social media sites including Instagram and Snapchat, court documents show. On Snapchat, she used the Snapmap function to try to check Chapin and Kernodle's location. With still no response from any of the four victims, at around 11.50am Mortensen called a friend and asked her to 'come over and check the house because she was scared,' the document states. The friend E.A. and her boyfriend H.J. came to the home and met Mortensen and Funke at the bottom floor of the three-story house. The two roommates and H.J. made their way to the second floor, where H.J. 'went to the kitchen to grab kitchen knife,' the document states. According to the documents, Mortensen and Funke then saw Kernodle lying on the floor. Mortensen testified to the grand jury that she saw Kernodle that time for a 'split second' and 'just started bawling because thought she had just like don't even know. thought maybe she was still just drunk and all asleep on the floor.' At that moment, H.J. told the young women to 'get out' and they all went outside. When H.J. emerged from the house soon after, he 'was pale white and mentioned something about someone being unconscious,' the document states. He told them to call 911 and the distressing phone call was placed just before midday - around eight hours on from the murders. What survivors Mortensen and Funke saw and heard that horror night will play a central role in the looming trial of their friends' accused killer. Kohberger's defense wanted the judge to ban jurors from seeing the texts or the 911 call, claiming they were hearsay and that 'there is no evidence they were sufficiently startled by the events.' The judge disagreed, writing that 'the events are sufficiently startling to both D.M. and B.F for purposes of the excited utterance exception.' 'D.M. and B.F. are young female college students and the self described "scaredy cats of the house,"' he wrote. 'They were awoken from sleep after night of drinking with D.M. reporting that she heard noises and saw masked intruder in their home. None of the other roommates were responding to their calls and texts, further indicating something was amiss. It would be potentially terrifying for anyone, including these young women. 'To argue that they would have run out of the house or called someone else for help had they really been startled unempathetically ignores these circumstances and the trauma and confusion they were evidently experiencing, which likely offset logical thought... They were clearly under stress and attempting to make sense of frightening situation.' The defense also tried - unsuccessfully - to block the phrase 'bushy eyebrows' from the trial, the term Mortensen used to describe the masked man she saw inside their home. In a series of other court orders, the judge also refused to rule out the death penalty despite Kohberger's recent autism diagnosis and also ruled that jurors can see Kohberger's Amazon shopping history. Prosecutors say his shopping history reveals he bought a Ka-Bar knife, sheath and sharpener from Amazon back in March 2022. A Ka-Bar leather knife sheath was left behind by the killer next to Mogen's lifeless body. DNA found on the sheath came back a match to Kohberger. The murder weapon itself has never been found. Kohberger was arrested around six weeks on from the slayings at his family home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania and charged with the four murders. As well as the DNA evidence, prosecutors say Kohberger's white Hyundai Elantra also matches the car seen leaving the crime scene at the time of the murders and that his cellphone records indicate he may have stalked the King Road home at least a dozen times in the lead-up to the murders. Kohberger is next due in court in mid-may for a pre-trial hearing. He is slated to go on trial in August. Due to changes in state law, he could be executed by firing squa d if convicted and handed the death penalty.
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Extra bucks: Weber State freezes tuition, fee increases for students with fewer than 60 credit hours
Some good news for Fawn Worthen and thousands of other budget-minded Weber State students arrived just days after tuition hikes were reported at all eight of Utah's degree granting colleges and universities. The Ogden university has announced that it's pausing tuition and fee increases in the 2025-26 academic year for students with less than 60 credit hours. Almost half of Weber State University's full-time residents, including Worthen, are on the shy side of earning 60 credit hours — the number required to earn an associate degree. First- and second-year students who attend WSU in the fall and spring semester are expected to save $135 per year, according to the university. 'That's a modest start to what we hope will be even greater savings in the future,' said WSU President Brad Mortensen. 'We know that every dollar matters for our students, so we're hoping this pilot program can serve as a model for the state to follow and eventually get students saving closer to $1,000 per year.' A Layton native, Worthen is pursuing an associate degree in communications at WSU. Learning that she would have few extra bucks in her pocket to help pay for food, transportation and other student expenses was welcome news 'It's humbling,' Worthen told the Deseret News. 'It feels like we're being seen.' Last Friday, the Utah Board of Higher Education approved a 'sub-inflationary 2.23% systemwide weighted average increase' among the state's public colleges and universities. A resident undergraduate student at WSU taking 15 credits per semester during the 2025-2026 academic year should expect to pay $68 more than the previous academic year — a 1.03% increase. But tuition and fees increases will be frozen for WSU's lower division students with fewer than 60 credit hours, according to Monday's announcement. Mortensen points to studies revealing 'significant enrollment growth' when the cost of earning an associate degree was cut by $1,000. In a study published by University of Texas at Austin, researchers found that reducing community college tuition by $1,000 'increased enrollment in community college by 5.1 percentage points, roughly a 20% increase.' Weber State's partial tuition freeze comes as a result of its dual mission, which sees the university serving two distinct student populations: those pursuing two-year degrees and those pursuing four-year degrees, according to the university. Mortensen said tuition rates for the two populations should also be distinct in order to help remove cost barriers for those in their first two years of college. 'Getting an associate degree should be just as affordable at four-year colleges as it is at community colleges,' Mortensen said. WSU offers a variety of associate degrees — including an Associate of Arts (AA), Associate of Science (AS) and Associate of Applied Science (AAS) — in a variety of disciplines such as entrepreneurship, communication and health sciences. For many Weber State students, an associate degree doubles as a pathway to a bachelor's degree. Others use their associate degree to launch their careers in specific fields. Utah Valley University and Utah Tech University are also dual-mission institutions. Weber State's decision to freeze tuition and fees for associate degrees comes at a financially turbulent moment in local academia. Along with Utah's seven other public degree-granting higher education institutions, WSU is developing a 'strategic reinvestment' plan required by the Legislature to reallocate millions to programs determined to be of highest value. Approximately $6.7 million of WSU's state-provided budget will have to be reallocated to implement its future reinvestment plan. WSU has assembled a committee of stakeholder groups including faculty representation from each of the university's colleges to navigate implementation of House Bill 265, according to a university information page dedicated to the reinvestment plan. That committee will examine criteria and identify potential cost saving in reallocating academic and student success programs to comply with the recently passed HB 265. Meanwhile, several key administrative positions at WSU have already been eliminated. WSU also announced a 'voluntary separation incentive program' for eligible employees in academic affairs. 'Ultimately, difficult decisions will need to be made that impact people and programs, and our goal is to avoid as many involuntary layoffs as possible,' according to a university site explaining the separation program. 'Offering a voluntary separation package early provides an option for those interested and helps inform our HB 265 planning process,' the site noted. This week's announcement of a tuition and fees freeze for students with less than 60 credit hours will impact legions of WSU students. For the current academic year, Weber State enjoyed the largest enrollment spike — 7.09% — of any Utah public college or university. And for the fourth consecutive year, Weber State welcomed its largest-ever student body in September. More than 32,400 students matriculated at the Ogden public university for the 2024 fall semester. Utah's flagship university, the University of Utah, experienced a 4.7% enrollment increase in 2024. Utah State University and Southern Utah University enrollment increased 2.98% and 2.73% percent, respectively. The Beehive State's largest community college, Salt Lake Community College, reported a 2.51% enrollment growth from last year.
CNN
20-03-2025
- CNN
New defense filings shed light on communications by roommates of killed University of Idaho students before 911 call
New court filings in the University of Idaho case continue to fill out the timeline of communications by two surviving roommates in the hours between four other students were killed in their house and when they called 911. The brutal killings of the four University of Idaho students – Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin – took place at an off-campus residence in Moscow in 2022. Bryan Kohberger is charged with their murders, has pleaded not guilty and faces the death penalty in a trial that is set to begin in August. In a court filing released Wednesday, defense attorneys for Kohberger took issue with what they say is the state prosecutors' selective use of phone records for surviving roommates Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke on the early morning of November 13, 2022. They advocated for the judge to prohibit prosecutors from showing the prosecutor's selection of the roommates' messages to the jury – or for the judge to allow more phone records to be admitted at trial so the jury can see what they call a fuller picture of what transpired. CNN previously reported that phone records show Mortensen and Funke exchanged panicked text messages when they couldn't reach their other housemates around the time investigators believe the killings occurred, between 4 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. Mortensen texted Funke at 4:22, saying 'No one is answering.' Funke says, 'Ya dude wtf.' Mortensen then texted Funke that she saw what looked like a masked man in their house, saying, 'I'm freaking out.' Funke later texted Mortensen: 'Come to my room,' and 'run.' The new defense filing says Funke accessed Snapchat and Instagram shortly after the text exchange and called her parents hours later. Records previously released in a motion by prosecutors suggested Mortensen renewed her efforts to reach the others in the house at about 10:23 a.m. only after 'waking up and realizing that she had not heard from her roommates.' But Kohberger's attorneys now say Mortensen joined Funke in her room and their phone activity was only dark for about three hours. According to the defense filing, Mortensen's phone records show that she was awake earlier than prosecutors claim she woke up. The defense filing reveals a string of phone activity for Mortensen and Funke not previously made public. Funke and Mortensen, identified by their initials in the court documents, were both using their phones by around 8 a.m., the new defense filing claims Funke first called her dad's phone at 7:30 a.m. The defense's motion details the following call activity and social media access by the roommates, picking up hours after their text exchanges and Funke last accessing Instagram at 4:37 a.m.: 7:30 BF calls dad 8:00 BF calls dad 8:00 BF calls another number 8:01 BF calls home 8:02 BF calls mom 8:09 dad calls BF 8:05:43 – 10:00:45 DM on Instagram 8:41-8:42 BF takes photos 9:04:36 mom texts BF 10:00:56 – 10:01:40 DM messages, incoming and outgoing (snapchat) 10:01:53 – 10:03:05 DM on Instagram 10:03:30 – 10:04:02 DM on Indeed 10:04:54 – 10:23:02 DM messages, incoming and outgoing (snapchat) In the motion, Kohberger's attorneys dispute the prosecution's claims that Mortensen woke up to realize her roommates hadn't responded to her texts overnight. Mortensen tried again to reach Goncalves and Mogen starting at 10:23 a.m., asking them if they were awake: 'R u up??' The new defense filing says Mortensen used Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok and texted her dad hours before she reached out to Mogen and Goncalves again. 10:23:23 DM text MM 10:24:01 – 10:25:04 DM on Instagram 10:30:18 – 10:45:43 DM messages, incoming and outgoing (snapchat) 11:21:53 JM texts BF 10:56:49 – 11:29:08 DM on Instagram and messages on snapchat 11:29:27 DM text KG 11:29:41 – 11:32:45 DM on Instagram and messaging on snapchat 11:35:36 DM on Yik Yak 11:36:07 DM on Tik Tok 11:37:36 DM messages (snapchat) 11:39:09 -11:40:14 DM and dad text 11:49 BF calls JM 11:50:55 JM text DM 11:44:06 – 11:50:38 DM on Instagram 11:50:58 DM calls EA 11:51:01 JM texts DM 11 :54 :57-11 :55 :01 JM texts BF 3 texts 11:54:39 – 11:57:01 DM on Instagram Funke eventually called 911 at 11:56 a.m. to report Kernodle unconscious at the residence, records show, and two other friends could be heard with them on the call. A transcript of the surviving roommates' 911 call was also released with a filing earlier this month. The transcript shows the chaos as Mortensen and Funke pass the phone between them answering the dispatcher in fragmented responses. The transcript does not identify the speakers by name but shows another unnamed friend with them also spoke to the dispatcher. Heavy breathing and crying can be heard throughout the call. CNN obtained an audio recording of the call after the transcript was released. Prosecutors have indicated they expect both surviving roommates to testify at trial and want to use their text messages to illustrate the timeline of the night. Defense attorney Anne Taylor has pointed to what she described as inconsistencies in law enforcement interviews with Mortensen and Funke. In the latest defense filing, Kohberger's attorney calls into question why the surviving roommates didn't call 911 sooner. 'Despite her stated fear of leaving her room she does so and joins BF downstairs. To get to BF's bedroom DM passed the front door of the residence. BF was steps from the front door. Neither of them left the house. Neither of them called friends, family or law enforcement for help,' the filing claims. The defense brief was among dozens of court filings released Wednesday as the parties make their cases to the judge about what should and shouldn't be admissible evidence at trial. In another defense filing released in the tranche, Kohberger's attorneys say, 'Many alternate perpetrators can be connected to the crime,' and they have evidence they want to show the court. Prosecutors plan to call law enforcement witnesses to testify about a test run they conducted to show that it was possible to commit four homicides in a time frame of only minutes including time to walk to and from a car and remove blood-covered clothes, a defense filing says. Kohberger's attorneys say they need an expert to testify about his developmental coordination disorder to show the jury he was not physically capable of committing the crime that they argue required such speed and coordination.
CNN
20-03-2025
- CNN
New defense filings shed light on communications by roommates of killed University of Idaho students before 911 call
New court filings in the University of Idaho case continue to fill out the timeline of communications by two surviving roommates in the hours between four other students were killed in their house and when they called 911. The brutal killings of the four University of Idaho students – Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin – took place at an off-campus residence in Moscow in 2022. Bryan Kohberger is charged with their murders, has pleaded not guilty and faces the death penalty in a trial that is set to begin in August. In a court filing released Wednesday, defense attorneys for Kohberger took issue with what they say is the state prosecutors' selective use of phone records for surviving roommates Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke on the early morning of November 13, 2022. They advocated for the judge to prohibit prosecutors from showing the prosecutor's selection of the roommates' messages to the jury – or for the judge to allow more phone records to be admitted at trial so the jury can see what they call a fuller picture of what transpired. CNN previously reported that phone records show Mortensen and Funke exchanged panicked text messages when they couldn't reach their other housemates around the time investigators believe the killings occurred, between 4 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. Mortensen texted Funke at 4:22, saying 'No one is answering.' Funke says, 'Ya dude wtf.' Mortensen then texted Funke that she saw what looked like a masked man in their house, saying, 'I'm freaking out.' Funke later texted Mortensen: 'Come to my room,' and 'run.' The new defense filing says Funke accessed Snapchat and Instagram shortly after the text exchange and called her parents hours later. Records previously released in a motion by prosecutors suggested Mortensen renewed her efforts to reach the others in the house at about 10:23 a.m. only after 'waking up and realizing that she had not heard from her roommates.' But Kohberger's attorneys now say Mortensen joined Funke in her room and their phone activity was only dark for about three hours. According to the defense filing, Mortensen's phone records show that she was awake earlier than prosecutors claim she woke up. The defense filing reveals a string of phone activity for Mortensen and Funke not previously made public. Funke and Mortensen, identified by their initials in the court documents, were both using their phones by around 8 a.m., the new defense filing claims Funke first called her dad's phone at 7:30 a.m. The defense's motion details the following call activity and social media access by the roommates, picking up hours after their text exchanges and Funke last accessing Instagram at 4:37 a.m.: 7:30 BF calls dad 8:00 BF calls dad 8:00 BF calls another number 8:01 BF calls home 8:02 BF calls mom 8:09 dad calls BF 8:05:43 – 10:00:45 DM on Instagram 8:41-8:42 BF takes photos 9:04:36 mom texts BF 10:00:56 – 10:01:40 DM messages, incoming and outgoing (snapchat) 10:01:53 – 10:03:05 DM on Instagram 10:03:30 – 10:04:02 DM on Indeed 10:04:54 – 10:23:02 DM messages, incoming and outgoing (snapchat) In the motion, Kohberger's attorneys dispute the prosecution's claims that Mortensen woke up to realize her roommates hadn't responded to her texts overnight. Mortensen tried again to reach Goncalves and Mogen starting at 10:23 a.m., asking them if they were awake: 'R u up??' The new defense filing says Mortensen used Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok and texted her dad hours before she reached out to Mogen and Goncalves again. 10:23:23 DM text MM 10:24:01 – 10:25:04 DM on Instagram 10:30:18 – 10:45:43 DM messages, incoming and outgoing (snapchat) 11:21:53 JM texts BF 10:56:49 – 11:29:08 DM on Instagram and messages on snapchat 11:29:27 DM text KG 11:29:41 – 11:32:45 DM on Instagram and messaging on snapchat 11:35:36 DM on Yik Yak 11:36:07 DM on Tik Tok 11:37:36 DM messages (snapchat) 11:39:09 -11:40:14 DM and dad text 11:49 BF calls JM 11:50:55 JM text DM 11:44:06 – 11:50:38 DM on Instagram 11:50:58 DM calls EA 11:51:01 JM texts DM 11 :54 :57-11 :55 :01 JM texts BF 3 texts 11:54:39 – 11:57:01 DM on Instagram Funke eventually called 911 at 11:56 a.m. to report Kernodle unconscious at the residence, records show, and two other friends could be heard with them on the call. A transcript of the surviving roommates' 911 call was also released with a filing earlier this month. The transcript shows the chaos as Mortensen and Funke pass the phone between them answering the dispatcher in fragmented responses. The transcript does not identify the speakers by name but shows another unnamed friend with them also spoke to the dispatcher. Heavy breathing and crying can be heard throughout the call. CNN obtained an audio recording of the call after the transcript was released. Prosecutors have indicated they expect both surviving roommates to testify at trial and want to use their text messages to illustrate the timeline of the night. Defense attorney Anne Taylor has pointed to what she described as inconsistencies in law enforcement interviews with Mortensen and Funke. In the latest defense filing, Kohberger's attorney calls into question why the surviving roommates didn't call 911 sooner. 'Despite her stated fear of leaving her room she does so and joins BF downstairs. To get to BF's bedroom DM passed the front door of the residence. BF was steps from the front door. Neither of them left the house. Neither of them called friends, family or law enforcement for help,' the filing claims. The defense brief was among dozens of court filings released Wednesday as the parties make their cases to the judge about what should and shouldn't be admissible evidence at trial. In another defense filing released in the tranche, Kohberger's attorneys say, 'Many alternate perpetrators can be connected to the crime,' and they have evidence they want to show the court. Prosecutors plan to call law enforcement witnesses to testify about a test run they conducted to show that it was possible to commit four homicides in a time frame of only minutes including time to walk to and from a car and remove blood-covered clothes, a defense filing says. Kohberger's attorneys say they need an expert to testify about his developmental coordination disorder to show the jury he was not physically capable of committing the crime that they argue required such speed and coordination.
