Good morning and thanks so
much for joining us here.
On UP with Krim. I'm Channing Curtis.
In less than three hours,
the man accused of killing four
University of Idaho students will
be back in court this morning.
Our Tim Fam is joining us live
from the Layton County Courthouse
ahead of that hearing.
Good morning, Tim.
Good morning, Channing.
Yes, of this arraignment happening
a lot earlier than we thought.
Originally it was scheduled for late June and
now it is happening today as you mentioned,
at 9:00 AM You can see outside of
the late high County Courthouse,
there's a lot of attention gathered here from
both local and national media this morning.
This case obviously captured the
attention of the nation as police.
Search for the person who killed four
students at the University of Idaho.
That's who this is all about.
Really, when we think about we're talking
about is seeking justice for the victims.
While a large part of today will focus
on what's happening in the courtroom,
it is all about that first step in
seeking justice for the victims.
So let's get you to three things you need
to know about what's happening today.
As we mentioned,
that arraignment is happening at 9:00 AM.
The suspect, Brian Koberger,
is expected to enter a plea
for five charges against him.
#2 Those five charges include four counts of
firstdegree murder and one count of burglary.
And #3.
If he pleads not guilty,
the court will schedule the case for trial.
Right now, there's no indication
of when that trial may be.
We only we we will only know that
after today's appearance.
So right now,
there's also a gag order in place
that prevents law enforcement
attorneys and the victim's family from
speaking publicly about the case.
Last week Kremtu spoke with
the attorney for Kaylee,
the family of Kaylee Kensalves,
and he told us that he's still in the dark
about what this whole gag order means.
The conundrum is that he's being
arraigned at 9:00 o'clock on Monday
and then we have a scheduling
conference on the non dissemination
gag order at 10:00 o'clock.
But the the issue with that is
that as soon as he's arraigned,
Judge Marshall's off the case and
it goes to judge Judge.
So why are we having a scheduling
conference with Judge Marshall?
Well, Gray tells us that
Judge John Judge is set to
take over the case. As you heard,
Gray filed a motion to remove the gag order.
In those court documents,
he claimed he and the Consolvas family
should be allowed to speak publicly about
the case under the First Amendment.
A lot has happened in this
case in the last six months,
Coburger, since Coburger allegedly
killed those four students.
Our Nicole Hernandez has been
following this closely for
those for the last six months.
She continues our team coverage
now with a look back of the
events leading up to this point.
I'm at the King Rd.
House where police found
those four University of Idaho
students back in November.
A 30 minutes ago we went over
a timeline of events from the
murders to Coburger's arrest.
Now I want to break down what's
happened since the arrest to today,
the arraignment. We left
off at December 30th,
police arresting Brian Koberger and
his family home in Pennsylvania.
Just hours later,
law enforcement served a search warrant
on Koberger's Pullman apartment.
On January 3rd, Koberger waived
his extradition hearing so police
could bring him back to Idaho.
The next day, January 4th,
police fly Koberger across the country.
He lands at the Pullman Moscow
Regional Airport and officers taken
to the late High County Jail.
Less than 24 hours later,
on January 5th,
the courts released the arrest affidavit.
We learn a surviving.
Roommate saw a man in the
house the night of the murders,
that Coburger's phone pinged
near the King Rd.
House 12 times in the months
leading up to November 13th,
and that DNA evidence connected
Coburger to the murders.
Right after we saw that arrest affidavit,
Coburger appeared in court for
the first time on January 12th.
Coburger was in court again at that hearing.
The judge set the preliminary
trial for the end of June,
then not many updates until
this past week when we learned
about the grand jury indictment.
That of course brings us to
the arraignment this morning.
Both Tim and I will be at that
arraignment at 9:00 o'clock and we'll
make sure to bring you the updates
on Creme 2 News at Noon in Moscow,
Nicole Hernandez, Creme 2 News.
Nicole, thank you for that.
And again, the suspects arraignment is
scheduled to start at 9:00 AM this morning.
Creme 2 will be in the courtroom, but the
court is not allowing us to stream it.
But we will have a live report
right after that arraignment is
over to let you know what happened.
In the meantime,
for the very latest on this case,
you can text the word Moscow to
the number 509-448-2000 and we will
send a link right to your phone.