"Jim Leonard, a New Jersey-based defense attorney whose clients have included "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice, called Kohberger's $28,000 in donations "offensive on every level" but said the victims' families could sue him civilly to block him from profiting off the crime." . . .
"An Idaho court revealed convicted murderer Bryan Kohberger received tens of thousands of dollars in donations while his case dragged on Thursday, three years to the day after the former criminology Ph.D. student killed four undergrads in a 4 a.m. home invasion stabbing spree.
" 'State's Exhibit 3, filed with its reply brief, demonstrates that Defendant received several hundred donations totaling $28,360.96 while incarcerated at the Latah County and Ada County jails," Judge Steven Hippler wrote. "According to defense counsel, many of these donations came from Defendant's family members." . . .
"A specific breakdown showing the source of the funding was not released by the court. Kohberger's parents declared bankruptcy twice previously, in the mid-1990s and again in 2010, court records show." . . ."Hippler said some of the additional funds were outside the terms of the plea deal, but he ordered Kohberger to pay Goncalves' parents and Mogen's mother roughly $3,000 to split — $1,420 to the Goncalves family and $1,587.79 to Karen Laramie. The sums also carry a 9.125% annual interest rate."He also found that Kohberger's defense team was wrong about their claim that he would not be able to profit from future media deals under Idaho's version of the "Son of Sam" law, which requires him to put any earnings in an escrow account so that the victims' families have a chance to collect restitution or damages before he can profit."
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