State attorneys will call as many as 25 witnesses from a variety of expertise areas to try to prove the suspect’s guilt at trial in the Idaho student murder case.

The defense reasserted its prior allegations to try to justify to the judge why he should strike a multitude of state evidence in the case involving the deaths of four University of Idaho students.

It is important to the victims’ family, relatives, community members and the public that the veil of secrecy be lifted at trial,” the families of two victims previously said.

The dozen or more filings by Bryan Kohberger's defense allege that investigators mishandled key pieces of evidence in the collection process and were overly aggressive in their search protocols.

Bryan Kohberger's defense says Idaho prosecutors have stalled in their obligation to turn over reports from 20 of their 25 expert witnesses.

The defense in the University of Idaho murder trial is trying to poke as many holes as it can in the state's case before anything gets to court.

Lawyers for Idaho college killings suspect Bryan Kohberger say prosecutors need to be sanctioned over failures to hand over required expert witness disclosures putting Kohberger in a position where he will be “greatly prejudged” at trial.