# New lawyer challenges Kohberger’s guilty plea over alleged constitutional breaches

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/bryan-kohbergers-passionate-prison-calls-to-new-manhattan-lawyer-revealed-attorney-lifts-lid-on-killers-state-of-mind-his-coping-behind-bars-and-nights-inside-cell-spent-on-metal-be/
- Published: 2026-10-25T17:13:12+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-25T17:22:45+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16231275/Bryan-Kohberger-prison-calls-lawyer.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Kohberger’s lawyer is seeking to overturn his guilty plea.
- The challenge centres on constitutional issues in the plea process.
- A retrial could expose Kohberger to the death penalty.

## Summary

Bryan Kohberger’s new lawyer is challenging the guilty plea that spared him a trial for the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students. The effort could reopen a painful chapter for the victims’ families, while raising questions about how Kohberger’s plea was secured and whether his constitutional rights were respected.

Attorney Jason Goldman says he has not discussed with Kohberger whether he is innocent or what happened on the night of the killings; his focus is on alleged constitutional issues in the plea process. Goldman speaks with him by phone from an Idaho maximum-security prison, where he is serving four life sentences, and says conditions are difficult, including sleeping on a metal bed. Kohberger knows that if the plea is overturned and he goes to trial, he could face the death penalty; Goldman says any trial could be years away.

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