Kohberger's New Lawyer Has NEVER Handled a Case Like His

**Tony Brueski** (0:00)
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**Tony Brueski** (0:07)
On August 3rd of 2026, Greg Rauch became the lawyer for the most watched convicted killer in America. By that afternoon, a Fox News reporter had him on the phone. He hadn't read the petition, he hadn't read the case file, he never even had spoken to his client. But he was assigned Bryan Kohberger.
Excuse me, I do it quick, poor bastard. I'm not here to say anything bad about this attorney. I mean, talk about drawing the wrong card in the game. And now it's like, oh, oh, choose your own adventure today. Guess what? Guess who the state says you get to get behind?
His stated goal for the day or for day one was setting up a phone call. Then came the rest of the to do list in his own words. I got to read the case file. I got to talk to him. Isn't a lawyer who dropped the ball, that's a lawyer, lawyer who learned he had the Bryan Kohberger case at roughly the same moment the rest of the country did. The client he had it met wrote the petition that started all this himself by hand in his serial killer handwriting from a maximum security cell.
Kohberger turned, turned on a defense team that cost Idaho taxpayers millions to reach this moment. Thinking in his smarter than the rest of the room infinite wisdom. This will work out good. Let me get rid of the super qualified that I'm not paying a single red cent for.
Anne Taylor and her team. Let me get rid of them. Let me alienate them. Let me say horrible things about them in public. Question their ability, question their skills, question their ethics and their morals. I'm spending those years defending me up until the very end.
Who are still operating under attorney-client privilege, who were still there to represent Bryan Kohberger. Let me, I know better. I know better than them, because everything's worked out so well. Let me follow this path of alienating them and also basically opening up Anne Taylor to share almost anything she wants about the inner workings of having Bryan Kohberger as a client. I can't wait for that book. Holy shit. Anne Taylor, I bet you love what you do. It shows from what you do. It shows from the quality of your work. And I mean that sincerely. She's a good attorney. If you're in that situation, she's one you want.
But what Kohberger just did, if you're playing the game of life, Anne, and life can throw you curveballs sometimes.
I'd catch this one. I'd catch this one and go, you know, early retirement doesn't sound like such a bad idea. Because what you could now make by telling your story of representing Bryan Kohberger because of his carelessness and his stupidity of what he's saying publicly.
You can sell your story for movies, for books, for TV series, for everything. Holy shit, the gates are open and it's time to cash in on the shit show that you were put into.
It's time to ring that bell. It's time to pull the slot machine lever and take what comes out. You hit the fucking jackpot.
Because Kohberger is too stupid.
Enjoy retirement. Holy shit.
Although, I don't know. I mean, you know, if you love what you do, money's not the thing you're doing it for. You're doing it because it's what you love. So I don't know. But I'm just saying.
If I got that opportunity of, I mean, you could, it's probably five to ten million dollars right there. That if you consider, okay, how much longer you may be working, how much more you might make in that capacity? I mean, it's going to be up there, but it might be somewhat comparable. You might cut off a good decade or two or three of work because of the stupid shit he just said. I don't know. Okay. Enough career and life advice for Anne Taylor.
Kohberger turned on a defense team that cost the Idaho taxpayers millions to reach this moment. Whether that trade was brilliant or something much sadder depends on the small town lawyer who answered his phone. On January 27th of 2026, Kohberger filed a handwritten request for post-conviction relief. That tool works in three steps. A prisoner claims his conviction is illegal. A judge decides whether the claim deserves a hearing. And a win can erase a guilty plea. Erase the plea. And the case could head back towards a trial. The odds are slim. But look, who would have predicted Alec Murdoch getting a new trial?
His plea deal required him to waive his appeal rights. A petition for post conviction relief is a very different instrument. And the waiver doesn't block it. That distinction is the loophole. The entire story runs through. It's like, how did he do it? He signed that thing that said he couldn't do it. Yeah, he did. And this isn't that. This is a whole different mechanism. This is a whole different lever. That I don't know if Bill Thompson knew about the prosecutor, the DA, or whatever the fuck.