Bryan Kohberger, the former criminal justice doctoral student charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students in 2022, on Wednesday entered a guilty plea deal that would spare him the death penalty.
Kohberger, 30, had been scheduled to stand trial starting on Aug. 18. Instead, he accepted a plea agreement from prosecutors, agreeing to four consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole for the first-degree murders, in addition to 10 years for a burglary charge. He also waived his right to appeal.
