moscow, idaho, where the man accused of killing four university of idaho students just appeared in court. the judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. nbc senior legal correspondent laura jarrett joins me now. what comes next now, laura? this is really the first time we had seen kohberger for months, really since january, and with a case that is closely watched as this, obviously his every move, everything he says is being closely analyzed. listen to a little bit of his interaction with the judge just a short time ago, chris. do you understand the charge in count 1? yes. do you understand the maximum penalty? yes. do you understand the charge in count 2, murder in the first-degree. yes. do you understand the maximum penalty? yes. now, one of the more interesting moments there, chris, is when he was asked how does he plead, his lawyer got up and decided to say silent. that s an interesting move there
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to lie, whenever it suits earning its. and there was another inconsistency that was relevant to the case. patricia told us, you may recall, that gianni van forced her to marry him. i feared for my life. but take a look at these photos of patricia and gianni, a seemingly happy couple. all of them were taken after the murder. after they had secretly married. and, according to the prosecutor, it s possible the biggest lie of all was the reason for the murder in the first place. that patricia had been raped. she claims that she told the nurse from the clinic, at the college, that she was raped. but there is no record that she did. according to the medical records, patricia was examined by both the doctor and a nurse that day, but the notes from the visit only said patricia had unprotected sex, and wanted a morning after pill. no mention of a rape. we contacted the college about her visit to the clinic, they told us, that given the two decades
that black mother as i can being the mother of four black men and so she did the right thing and she acted swiftly. and i think we have bernarda with us. i want to ask about, you know, what these officers could be facing and what the prosecutors are weighing here. on the one hand there s a lot of public interest in this case. they are bracing potentially for really explosive reaction from the community. what are prosecutors weighing, if you were in their shoes, in terms of how to charge this case? abby, here we go again and i think this one will be one of the worst cases we ve seen cyst rodney king so what the state prosecutors are weighing at this time, what type of homicide charge to charge these pfeiffer officers. as you know there are different count, could be murder in the first, second degree or manslaughter and what we re thinking about the different
do you understand? yes. count 4 alleges you committed felony offense of murder, bryan c. kohberger, in latah county, idaho, did willfully, unlawfully, deliberately, premedication and malice aforethought, stabbing xnan kernodle which she died. the maximum penalty for the offense if you plead guilty or found guilty is up to death and/or imprisonment for life. do you understand? yes. count 5, alleged felony offense of murder in the first-degree. that the defendant, bryan c. kohberger on or about november 13, 2022, in latah