Bryan Kohberger's new lawyer says key questions may soon get answers in court

Bryan Kohberger's newest lawyer says upcoming filings and a potential evidentiary hearing will shed new light on the Idaho student murders case while their immediate legal fight concerns the constitutionality of the plea his client is attempting to withdraw.

"We think the [amended] PCR and evidentiary hearing will naturally address some of the outstanding and unanswered questions," Jason Goldman, a New York-based attorney who is joining Kohberger's team, told Fox News Digital Monday.

"That said, the main priority right now is to scrutinize the constitutional issues surrounding Bryan's plea." Kohberger, in a handwritten petition for post-conviction relief filed in July, told the court he had ineffective counsel, that his guilty plea was "not knowingly or voluntarily entered because it was induced by unkept promises" and that it was "not voluntarily entered because of threats asserted by petitioner's (Kohberger's) legal counsel." BRYAN KOHBERGER'S POST-CONVICTION RELIEF BID ENABLED BY FLAWED PLEA DEAL, PSYCHOLOGIST ARGUES "The circumstances surrounding Bryan's plea — and what occurred in the critical days leading up to it — deserve careful, independent judicial scrutiny," Goldman said.

"Some of those circumstances are already part of the public record.

Others are not." He also said that the support Kohberger receives from his family is part of why he agreed to join the case.

BRYAN KOHBERGER'S MOTHER CALLED HIM 'MY ANGEL' AND INSISTED POLICE MADE A 'REALLY, REALLY BAD MISTAKE': BOOK "Most family and friends run for the hills when a loved one is quietly arrested, let alone charged with a highly-publicized murder," he said.

"The unwavering support Bryan maintains speaks volumes." Judge Steven Hippler set a Nov.

13 deadline for Kohberger's lawyers to file an amended petition which is expected to be written by attorneys and include more in-depth legal arguments than the handwritten petition Kohberger submitted in July.

BRYAN KOHBERGER’S 2027 HEARING IS NOT GUARANTEED AS IDAHO SEEKS QUICK DISMISSAL Idaho defense attorney Greg Rauch was appointed to represent Kohberger last month.

Goldman said he would be joining as out-of-state counsel but is not yet officially on the docket.

Prosecutors have asked the judge to dismiss Kohberger's petition on numerous grounds, but Kohberger's lawyers filed a motion last week to have the judge removed from the case and to change the venue back to Moscow, Idaho, where the offices of Rauch and the Latah County Prosecuting Attorney are both located.

Kohberger had previously sought a change of venue out of Latah County, where the murders took place, which landed him in front of Hippler in Ada County.

FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X "The motion speaks for itself," Goldman said.