Bickka Barlow, formerly a defense witness, joins the Kohberger’s legal team

Suspicious murders of Students from Idaho Bryan Kohberger He added to one of his own expert witnesses in defense of his legal team while facing positions that could take the death penalty in relation to the murders in the home of four students of the University of Idaho in 2022.

San Francisco’s lawyer, Bichka Barlow, a DNA forensic expert who testified Kohberger’s defense during an August 2023 hearing, has been admitted for vice in the case, which means that the judge gave him permission to represent to Kohberger with his other lawyers, even if his license is in California.

Barlow obtained a degree in Genetics from the University of California, Berkeley, before obtaining a master’s degree from the University of Cornell, according to its website. Then he went to the Law School of the University of San Francisco.

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The geneticist and lawyer Bicka Barlow speaks during the audience of Bryan Kohberger on August 18, 2023 at the Palace of Justice of the County County in Moscow, Idaho. (August Frank/Lewiston Tribune)

She began her career as a investigation lawyer in the criminal division of the San Francisco Superior Court and finally founded a private practice dedicated to cases involving DNA.

She claims to have directed the first successful challenge in an American court to the admissibility of the evidence of Repetition DNA in short tandem (STR), one of the most common methods of DNA analysis.

It also has experience with mitochondrial DNA and Y-STR, which is a specific Str test of the Y.

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Bryan Kohberger enters the Court Chamber for a hearing on August 18, 2023 at the Latah County Palace in Moscow, Idaho. (August Frank/Pool through Reuters)

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Jay Logsdon, attached to lead defending lawyer Anne Taylor, will remain in the team as a consultant, but will not represent the 30 -year Kohberger at the trial, according to an order by Ada Steven Hipler’s County judge.

DNA evidence It has been fundamental to identify Kohberger as a suspicious in the murders of Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.

Police recovered a knife pod from under the remains of Mogen with DNA in the click.

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During a closed door procedure that was revealed this week, the Moscow detective Brett Payne, the principal investigator, testified that Kohberger’s name had not met him before December 19, when the FBI offered it as a council after a genealogy Genetics Research.

Madison Mogen, up to the left, smiles on the shoulders of her best friend, Kaylee Goncalves, while posing with Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and two other housemates in the last Instagram position of Goncalves, shared the day before the Four students were stabbed to death. (@KayleegoCalves/Instagram)

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But the use of genealogy databases by the FBI violated an internal policy, the defense witness Dr. Leah Larkin at the same audience. The investigators used at least two databases that the police were not supposed to access.

Hippler previously ruled that FBI’s actions did not violate the Constitution or underminate the probable cause used for Arrest Kohberger.

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Kohberger’s trial is expected to begin in August and take up to 15 weeks. He could face the death penalty if he is convicted.