Court Filing
Filed: 06/09/2025 17:09:48 Fourth Judicial District, Ada County Trent Tripple, Clerk of the Court By: Deputy Clerk-Waters, Renee IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA STATE OF IDAHO CASE NUMBER CR01-24-31665 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING INDEPENDENT Defense Byport V. ANALYSIS OF EVIDENCE BRYAN C. KOHBERGER, Defendant. The Court having before it the Motion for Independent Analysis of Evidence, and good cause appearing, now, therefore; IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the aforementioned evidence shall be made available to defense expert, ████████████ by the Moscow Police Department and / or other agency in possession of the same, for independent testing and review by an independent testing agency. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that ████████████ shall, at the defense counsel's expense, be allowed to conduct the independent testing of the evidence. Specifically, the Acer Laptop and Samsung phone belonging to Bryan Kohberger. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the chain of custody shall be maintained on the evidence at all times. Moscow Police Department shall hand-deliver and / or ship the evidence via FedEx directly to ████████████ who will ship the evidence via FedEx back to the Moscow Police Department upon ████████████████████████████████████████ completion of testing. The evidence should be shipped to attention ORDER GRANTING INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS OF EVIDENCE Page-1 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that upon completion of testing by ████████████ ████ ██████ is to immediately notify Anne C. Taylor to arrange for transfer of the evidence back to the Moscow Police Department. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the results of the testing shall be considered work product of Mr. Kohberger and / or his attorney and said results shall be submitted solely to the office of Anne C. Taylor. SO ORDERED 6-9-25 STEVEN J. HIPPLER DISTRICT JUDGE ORDER GRANTING INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS OF EVIDENCE Page-2 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on 6/9/2025 I served a true and correct copy of the ORDER GRANTING DEFENSE EXPERT ANALYSIS OF EVIDENCE WILLIAM W. THOMPSON, JR. PROSECUTING ATTORNEY VIA EMAIL: paservice@latahcountyid.gov ASHLEY JENNINGS SENIOR DEPUTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY VIA EMAIL: paservice@latahcountyid.gov JOSHUA D. HURWIT SPECIAL DEPUTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY VIA EMAIL: paservice@latahcountyid.gov JEFFERY D. NYE SPECIAL ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL VIA EMAIL: jeff.nye@ag.idaho.gov MADISON ALLEN SPECIAL ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL VIA EMAIL: Madison.allen@ag.idaho.gov ANNE TAYLOR LAW, PLLC ANNE C. TAYLOR VIA EMAIL: info@annetaylorlaw.com ELISA G. MASSOTH, PLLC ELISA G. MASSOTH VIA EMAIL: emassoth@kmrs.net IDAHO STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE FIRST DISTRICT PUBLIC DEFENDER JAY W. LOGSDON VIA EMAIL: jay.logsdon@spd.idaho.gov BICKA BARLOW Pro Hac Vice VIA EMAIL: bickabarlow@sbcglobal.net TRENT TRIPPLE Clerk of the Court By: nei Wat Deputy Clerk 6/9/2025 5:11:00 PM CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE