Kohberger Defense Team Handed Massive Defeat: Judge Rules Autism Won’t Save Him from Potential Death Penalty

The man accused of murdering four university students in 2022 could still be facing death himself.

Attorneys for Bryan Kohberger, on trial for the savage stabbings in a rental home near the University of Idaho campus, cited a clinical neuropsychologist’s finding that their client is on the autism spectrum in asking District Judge Steven Hippler to rule out the possibility of capital punishment if Kohberg is convicted, according to the Associated Press.

And after a slew of earlier attempts to exclude the death penalty...