Brian Coberger is asking a Boise judge to rule out his Amazon purchase history and evidence of other activities on other shopping sites from his upcoming trial, in which four University of Idaho students died.
Attorney Elisa Massoth argued that Amazon evidence, including app “click activities,” should not be featured in court. This is because the term is vague and it is said that prosecutors want to define it or introduce the nature of expert testimony.
“Defense argues that limited disclosures made by the state, lack of raw data, lack of complete data, lack of expert opinion disclosure, lack of explanations for “Amazon Click Activity,” or explanations of analysis associated with it, amount to analysis equivalents that of limited data that does not provide a full picture compared to warrants for which extended data was requested.
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Brian Coberger will be in court for a hearing on Tuesday at Rata County Courthouse in Moscow, Idaho, USA on June 27, 2023. (Frank/Pool in August via Reuters)
“The refinement of all Amazon history and all states of Amazon click activity is out of context, incomplete and unjustly prejudiced, so it is unacceptable,” she continued.
Massoth also argued that Amazon's AI-driven algorithms “shape user behavior” by providing products that shoppers predict interest along with paid advertising.
“In 2022, Amazon's AI-driven system actively induced purchase behaviors that were proactively induced based on predictive models, rather than passively reflecting user searches,” reads Filing. “This means that users' views and purchase history do not necessarily reflect intentional intent, but may have been shaped by Amazon's algorithms.”
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They also confused their shopping lists by claiming that the 30-year-old Amazon account could have been shared with other “household members.” Kohberger has two sisters in addition to his mother and father.
Previously released court documents show that police tried to tie Kohberger to the purchase of a Ka-Bar knife after finding the sheath under the body of the victim, Madison Morgen.21. Sheath is said to have had DNA in the SNAP that ultimately led investigators to Kohberger.
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A screenshot on Amazon.com shows Ka-Bar knife for sale on a shopping website for under $100. (Amazon)
NBC's “Dateline” reported that Kohberger bought a Ka-Bar knife on Amazon in 2022 before moving to Pullman, Washington, to attend Washington State University.
A Thursday Amazon search showed that similar knives were popular and were readily available on the site.
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Madison Morgen on the top left smiled on the shoulder of her best friend Kaylee Goncalves, who posed alongside two other housemates in Ethan Chapin, Zana Carnordal and Goncalves' final Instagram post, sharing four students before being stabbed and killed. (@kayleegoncalves/instagram)
Kohberger had a PhD. WSU Criminology is just 10 miles away from the University of Idaho crime scene.
The search warrant shows police recovering the knife after Kohberger's arrest, but none have been publicly identified as a potential murder weapon.
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Morgen and all three friends were killed with multiple stab wounds.
Other victims were Kaylee Goncalves (age 21, Xana Kernodle (age 20) and 20).
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Kohberger's trial is scheduled to begin on August 11th at Boise. If convicted, he could face death penalty.
The judge entered into a plea for not guilty on his behalf in May 2023.
