{"id":306863,"date":"2026-07-27T18:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306863\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:37:10","slug":"new-york-times-kohberger-says-he-wants-to-withdraw-plea-and-face-trial-for-murder-of-idaho-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306863\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times: Kohberger says he wants to withdraw plea and face trial for murder of Idaho college students"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Bryan Kohberger, the man convicted of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students, is seeking to take back his guilty plea, he told The New York Times in an interview<\/a> from prison.\n <\/p>\n

\n Kohberger said he filed a petition to reopen the case and that he blamed his plea on \u201cfalse promises\u201d and wrong information.\n <\/p>\n

\n A post conviction relief form was filed Monday in Idaho courts, documents show.\n <\/p>\n

\n Kohberger was convicted last year after entering a guilty plea<\/a>, during which he publicly admitted to the four killings for the first time.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cMy actual innocence is my truth, and the plea, hinged on by false promises and blatant disinformation, MUST be withdrawn,\u201d Kohberger said in a statement provided to The New York Times.\n <\/p>\n

\n The office of Anne Taylor, one of Kohberger\u2019s attorneys, declined to comment.\n <\/p>\n

\n Idaho Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador said in a statement to CNN that his office is \u201cready to do whatever is necessary to ensure justice is fully carried out.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cMy heart goes out to the families of Madison, Kaylee, Xana, and Ethan, who have already endured unimaginable loss and now must face today\u2019s deeply painful news,\u201d the statement read.\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN has reached out to the Latah County prosecutor\u2019s office and the Ada County prosecutor\u2019s office.\n <\/p>\n

\n This is a developing story and will be updated.\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN\u2019s Linh Tran, Jack Hannah and Jean Casarez contributed to this report.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Kohberger, the man convicted of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students, is seeking to take back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-306863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}