Kohberger Wants His Plea Back Over WHAT His Lawyers Said?!

Bryan Kohberger wants to withdraw the guilty plea that spared him a death-penalty trial, and his new challenge reaches back to what his own lawyers privately told the judge weeks before that plea. The now-unsealed filing says Anne Taylor’s team believed Kohberger was struggling to understand adverse rulings and rationally evaluate the case as a whole.

That is not the same as a finding that Kohberger was incompetent. His attorneys expressly denied incompetence while asking Judge Steven Hippler for additional time to investigate the problem and obtain expert assistance. Hippler denied the request on June 26, 2025. Six days later, Kohberger admitted the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin and pleaded guilty to burglary as well.

The post-conviction petition tells a different story from the plea hearing. Kohberger now alleges his attorneys pressured him, made promises about prison life, and failed to disclose evidence. At the plea hearing, however, he told Hippler he understood the consequences, was not being forced, and was pleading guilty because he was guilty.

His evidence claim involving hair found in Ethan Chapin’s hand also has a pre-plea record. Defense expert Ruth Ballard examined a hair from that location and concluded it was morphologically consistent with Chapin’s own reference hair. Taylor filed that analysis before the plea agreement was signed.

Tony Brueski and defense attorney Eric Faddis examine what a court does with those competing records, why the competency distinction matters, and what the October 15 fight over Judge Hippler could mean before the larger evidentiary hearing scheduled for June 2027.

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