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因杀害爱达荷大学四名学生而被判多项终身监禁的布莱恩·科伯格，正对自己的定罪提出上诉。
法庭记录显示，这名前刑事司法博士生科伯格于周一提交了定罪后救济申请。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已申请获取该申请的副本。科伯格正在为自己辩护。
科伯格在接受《纽约时报》采访时首次透露自己已提交该申请，该报报道称科伯格声称自己是在被误导的情况下作出供述的。
科伯格于去年7月对2022年在爱达荷州莫斯科市一处校外住宅内刺杀伊桑·查平、哈娜·克诺德罗特、麦迪逊·莫根和凯莉·贡萨尔维斯的罪行认罪。他随后被判处四项终身监禁，不得假释。
这起谋杀案以及对嫌疑人的追捕在2022年11月引发全国关注。科伯格在宾夕法尼亚州奥尔布赖特斯维尔被捕的消息在案发一个多月后公布。
科伯格的认罪协议使他免于死刑。在2025年7月的一场听证会上，当史蒂文·希普勒法官询问他是否杀害了查平、克诺德罗特、莫根和贡萨尔维斯时，科伯格回答“是”。当希普勒法官问道“你认罪是因为你确实有罪吗？”，科伯格回答“是”。
检方表示，如果案件进入庭审，他们将提交的证据包括将他与案发现场发现的刀鞘关联起来的DNA证据。作案凶器至今未被找到。
检方还表示，他们计划出示监控录像，显示科伯格的车辆和手机数据表明他当时身处命案现场附近。
科伯格的作案动机至今不明。
在认罪数周后的量刑听证会上，当受害者的亲友宣读证词时，科伯格面无表情。
贡萨尔维斯家族周一发表声明称，科伯格“得到了他确切要求的东西：一份饶他一命的协议”。
声明中称：“他选择不将自己的命运——或是本案的事实——交给陪审团裁决。他从未抱怨过，从未声称自己被蒙骗或受到胁迫，也从未表示过，他和辩护律师花了两年时间审阅的证据材料存在本应提出质疑的问题。”
该家族谴责外界对科伯格的关注。
“真正的悲剧在于：哪怕用来为一名有罪之人脱罪的一小部分精力，都能用来纪念受害者，那么每个街角都会有他们的雕像，公园会以他们的名字命名，也会有专门的日子来缅怀他们被一名自恋者夺走的生命。”他们说道。
卡特里娜·考夫曼和克里·布林为本报道撰稿。
Bryan Kohberger challenges conviction in Idaho murders
2026-07-27T16:49:00-0400 / CBS News
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Bryan Kohberger, the man serving multiple life sentences for the murders of four University of Idaho students, is challenging his conviction.
Kohberger, a former criminal justice doctoral student, filed a petition for post-conviction relief Monday, court records show. CBS News has requested a copy of the petition. Kohberger is representing himself.
Kohberger first revealed he had filed the petition in an interview with The New York Times, which reported that Kohberger is claiming he was misled into confessing.
Kohberger pleaded guilty last July to the 2022 stabbing deaths of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves in an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho. He was sentenced to four life sentences without the possibility of parole.
The murders and search for the suspect drew national attention in November 2022. Kohberger’s arrest in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, was announced more than a month after the murders.
Kohberger’s guilty plea was part of a deal that spared him from the death penalty. At a hearing in July 2025, Kohberger answered “Yes” when Judge Steven Hippler asked if he murdered Chapin, Kernodle, Mogen and Goncalves. When Hippler asked, “Are you pleading guilty because you are guilty?” Kohberger said, “Yes.”
The evidence prosecutors said they would have brought against Kohberger if the case had gone to trial included DNA linking him to a knife sheath found at the crime scene. The weapon has never been recovered.
Prosecutors also said they planned to show surveillance video of Kohberger’s car and cellphone data placing him in the vicinity of the killings.
Kohberger’s motive remains unknown.
During a sentencing hearing weeks after his guilty plea, Kohberger showed no emotion as loved ones of the victims read statements.
In a statement Monday, the Goncalves family said Kohberger “received exactly what he asked for: a deal that spared his life.”
“He chose not to leave his fate—or the facts of the case—to a jury,” their statement said. “He never cried foul, never claimed he was uninformed or pressured, and never suggested there were problems with the discovery materials he and his counsel had reviewed for two years that should have been challenged.”
The family condemned the attention given to Kohberger.
“The real tragedy is this: if even a fraction of the energy spent trying to free a guilty man were directed toward honoring the victims, there would be statues of them on every corner, parks bearing their names, and days set aside to remember the lives they lost at the hands of a narcissist,” they said.
Katrina Kaufman and Kerry Breen contributed to this report.
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