{"id":449410,"date":"2023-01-03T19:05:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T19:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=449410"},"modified":"2023-01-05T11:38:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T11:38:52","slug":"lawyer-suspect-in-university-of-idaho-slayings-believes-he-ll-be-exonerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/lawyer-suspect-in-university-of-idaho-slayings-believes-he-ll-be-exonerated","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer: Suspect in University of Idaho slayings believes he&#8217;ll be exonerated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students believes he&#8217;ll be exonerated, his attorney told NBC . Jason LaBar, the public defender representing Bryan Kohberger, said on the &#8220;Today&#8221; show that Kohberger said he did not commit the November stabbings, which gained national attention as police looked for a suspect for weeks before arresting Kohberger last week. &#8220;It is a little out of character. He said this is not him,&#8221; LaBar said on NBC. &#8220;He believes he&#8217;s going to be exonerated. That&#8217;s what he believes. Those were his words. So he&#8217;s really been very easy to talk to, actually, and he&#8217;s in a calm demeanor.&#8221; Authorities arrested Kohberger at his parents&#8217; home in Pennsylvania on Friday, and he is scheduled to appear at an extradition hearing in Monroe County on Tuesday afternoon. He was seen entering the Pennsylvania courthouse earlier on Thursday, NewsNation reported . NewsNation is owned by Nexstar, which also owns The Hill. LaBar indicated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students believes he&#8217;ll be exonerated, his attorney told NBC. Jason LaBar, the public defender representing Bryan Kohberger, said on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}