The main lawyer of Bryan Kherberger, Anne Taylor, can avoid news cameras, but she has shown that she is able to use widespread attention for the case in her advantage in her courtroom that maneuvers.
Even before Magistrate Judge Megan Marshall gave the first gag order in the case, Taylor refused to comment when he was contacted by Fox News Digital.
Since then she has refused to respond to additional requests for comment.
“It is unusual for the counselor to prevent you from trying to catch the spotlights and possibly influence public opinion through press conferences, but there is more than one way to sail a cat,” said Royal Oakes, a procedure and media analyst established in Los Angeles.
In the case of Kherberger, convincing evidence has already been made public-including the claim that the police found his DNA on a KA-bar knife sleeve under 21-year-old Madison, one of the four victims, and security video of a suspected vehicle that comes on the crime scene.
“You have the car that circles the victim’s house,” Oakes told Fox News Digital. “You have the DNA. You have the records of mobile phones. The strategy is instead to follow a kind of technical route and to question the science of the DNA and also to argue autism by the criminal suspect. That is a key factor, and that is not the kind of things you necessarily go public.”
Taylor used unflatter images of her client to have news cameras throw from the courtroom and to guarantee a change of location, those Kherberger’s coming test from Latah County, where the students were killed, moved to Boise.
Defense applications have emphasized widespread news item, as well as discussions about social media with thousands of detective noses and real crime followers.
More recently, Taylor argues that two major media projects – an episode of the “Dateline” and an upcoming book by Bestseller – crime author James Patterson and crime reporter Vicky Ward – justify another postponement of the test of four students of Idaho.
In particular, she claims that the episode of May 9 “Dateline” contains damn material that could endanger Kherberger’s right to a fair test.
“The program contains details and materials, including video images, mobile phone records and photos of documents, which are not publicly available through official channels,” she wrote in a motion to continue on 20 May. “The show repeatedly emphasizes the non-public nature of this information, where it was obtained from non-mentioned sources that are close to the research, and that the materials were obtained exclusively by” Dateline. “
Part of it will not be -inadmissible during the process, she added.
She also claimed that “the leaked materials seem careful to promote a debt story.”
“The defense strategy of delay and moving the process works wonderfully,” said Oakes. “She was able to change the location. She gets some postponement, and now she wants to postpone further.”
If she gets it, there are two important factors that would benefit the defense, he added.
“No. 1, give her time to think of something to overcome this incredibly strong physical evidence to him, and perhaps also to reduce public anger,” he said. “As the months and years pass, people will forget how horrible crime was, and may give her a better chance of getting a good result during the process.”
“They try to keep it outside the court of public opinion,” said David Gelman, a defense lawyer in Philadelphia and former public prosecutor who follows the case. “How do you do that? Stay away from the media.”
However, that is difficult in a case where many updates receive international attention.
Kherberger is accused of killing Mags, two housemates and another friend in a household home invasion. There is no publicly known motive, but a relevant detail is that he studied for a Ph.D. In criminology at the time of the murders.
The other victims were Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.
Jack Lu, a retired judge in Massachusetts and a deputy faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Lowell School of Criminology and Justice Studies, said that Taylor could consider ‘humanizing’ – but everything can be dangerous for the defense.
“That case sends a cold over the back of every professor in a school for criminology in the United States,” he told Fox News Digital.
