In the trial of Bryan Kohberger, accused of murdering four University of Idaho students, a judge has granted the defense team permission to continue conducting surveys among potential jurors without any modifications to the survey questions. The judge initially halted the surveys due to concerns that some of the questions violated the court’s non-dissemination order. However, after reviewing the questions, the judge determined that most of them were based on information that had already been made public, and the remaining two questions were read into the public record during hearings. The judge acknowledged that the questions may contain “prejudicial information or misinformation,” but ultimately left the decision to the defense team, stating that he did not have sufficient information to second-guess their strategic choices.
