"That's a real problem, since courts don't take kindly to walking a voluntary plea back without hard proof that something went seriously wrong behind the scenes."
"The family of one of the victims of Bryan Kohberger has hit out after it emerged that he was challenging his conviction for four murders of students in the US state of Idaho.
"Kohberger was sentenced last year to four consecutive terms of life in prison after pleading guilty to charges of murder in the November 2022 killings.
"In recent days, Kohberger told the New York Times he was taking back his plea, which was made to avoid the death penalty. He said it had rested on "false promises and blatant disinformation".
"The family of Kaylee Goncalves, one of the students who was killed, said that Kohberger was a "narcissist", who appeared to have changed his position.
"He chose not to leave his fate - or the facts of the case - to a jury," the statement from the Goncalves family said.
" 'He never cried foul, never claimed he was uninformed or pressured, and never suggested there were problems with the discovery materials he and his counsel had reviewed for two years that should have been challenged." . . . More...
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