One of two housemates who were inside an off-campus residence when four University of Idaho\u00a0students were slain in November\u00a0is asking a judge to reject a request by the defense that she attend an upcoming hearing for\u00a0murder suspect Bryan Kohberger.
The request from Bethany Funke to quash a subpoena was filed Friday in a district court in Washoe County, Nevada, where she is from, according to court documents and public records.
Funke’s motion says the subpoena would require her to appear in court in Latah County, Idaho, in late June and potentially for the duration of a trial against Kohberger, who was arrested in Pennsylvania on Dec. 30,\u00a0weeks after the Nov. 13 slayings. Kohberger, 28, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for the week of June 26, when prosecutors will begin presenting evidence. He has yet to enter a plea. A motive in the killings also remains unclear; Kohberger’s\u00a0family said in January\u00a0that they were cooperating with law enforcement to “promote his presumption of innocence.”
An affidavit filed in March by a criminal investigator supporting Kohberger’s defense says Funke was in a first-floor bedroom of the apartment house during the early morning of the murders on Nov. 13.
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