Kohberger's New Lawyer Thinks He Can Undo the Guilty Plea

**Tony Brueski** (0:10)
Bryan Kohberger's new attorney, a New York criminal defense lawyer, named Jason Goldman. He released a statement just the other day. He said the public should, in his words, simply caution against assuming that everything the public believes it knows about this case tells the complete story.
Thank you, Saul Goodman. I'm sorry, I shouldn't. I know, you were saying this. I don't want to be mean.
Is the doughnut place still open down the mini mall way from the practice or is that? Okay, I'm sorry.
I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I actually should have a little empathy for whoever has been given this task of defending or being the attorney for Bryan Kohberger because he had a pretty solid ace in the hole as best you're going to get when you take the lives of four people like Bryan Kohberger and Dan Taylor. But you know, according to Bryan, it wasn't wasn't up to snuff. So here we are. That is the play. That is where I hate to use this term because it's not a game. But it feels like Bryan Kohberger is treating the lives of these four souls that he took as a game. So when I say that's where the game is at, that's where the game is at. It means zero disrespect to these victims.
But if this asshole is going to play this game, OK, play the game and the rest of the world will bring it back and will beat you into the corner of the playground where you were as a child because you failed so miserably at being a human being amongst the rest of the children.
And we'll keep you there and then we'll put you in the well.
And then we'll let the local wildlife come over and feast on what remains of your sorrowful existence, BryanKohberger.
Inmate number, whatever it is that I didn't have the time to give a shit to look up your cell number, which is now your current name.
So that's the play. A man who pled guilty to killing four University of Idaho students now has a court-appointed legal team paid for by the public, and its spokesperson is telling that same public, it doesn't understand. He said guilty four times in that courtroom. Once for each name, but you know, don't look too closely at little Bry here and everything he's already admitted to. He's gone back into his room for a little bit, and he came back out and said, you know what? The story is changed.
So if we are simply being cautioned against assuming that everything the public believes it knows about this case tells the complete story, let's go through what the public knows about this case that tells the complete story. Let's go through the record. Every documented verified public record thing we know about BryanKohberger. And then Goldman can explain which part of all we got wrong.
I think it seems like a reasonable task. Let's do it. Let's go through and then we'll reach out and find out exactly what we got wrong. He grew up in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. He was bullied as a teenager for his weight. He wrote about depression when he was 16 By the time he graduated high school, he developed a nice heroin addiction. According to the neighbor's account and a book documenting the case, he broke into homes to fund it, not shoplifting, not stealing from a cash register, breaking into houses. Intimately, people's personal spaces, he was not respecting in any way, shape or form. He stole his sister's cell phone, went to a mall, sold it for $200 to buy drugs. His own father, Michael Kohberger, called the police on his own son. He was arrested in 2014 That conviction was later expunged. He also was forced out of a security job for reasons that really haven't been made public. But I guess it's probably not too hard to guess why. That's the foundation. A teenage heroin addict who learned how to break into homes. That part matters later. So there's our foundation. And I get it, you're a defense attorney. You got to pitch this to the crowd and the ether in the world of maybe there's more. I get it. I get it. And you get where we're coming from too.
But anybody who's on the fence about Kohberger, hearing your line and going, I don't know. I don't really know much about that case. Listen up, my friends. Listen up. Then he went to college here in a bachelor's degree in psychology from DeSales University in 2020 He had a master's in criminal justice from the same school in 22 While he was there, he posted a survey on Reddit under the username criminology underscore student. He identified himself by his full name. The survey asked convicted criminals to describe the thoughts and feelings they experienced while committing their crimes. One question asked, why did you choose that victim? Another, what was the first move you made to accomplish your goal? Another, before making your move, how much or how did you approach the victim or target? The survey was approved by the University's Institutional Review Board. It was filed as academic research. And those are real questions, if Bryan Kohberger wrote under his own name before he drove to the house in Moscow, Idaho. Seemingly, seemingly curiously similar questions. He was very likely asking himself before committing the crimes. What do you guys feel when you do it?