go to trial. his defense lawyers are going to ask the judge for a stay to delay the trial while they attempt to challenge the grand jury indictment. they allege the prosecution made a series of errors when instructing the grand juries. one of the jurors checked a box she didn t understand english. prosecutors say it was a mistake and she filled out the form and participated. the defense says the standard of guilt was too low arguing they should have been required to find kohberger guilty beyond a reasonable doubt instead of probable cause that he committed the murders. the other big issue involves how the police handled dna evidence and how they used investigative again et he can genealogy to identify kohberger as their suspect. defense lawyers are asking for all the genealogy material to be turned over in discovery. in her motion the lead attorney wrote it remains unclear what the police first relied on in focusing their investigation on
mr. kohberger through the lack of disclosure and motion to protect genetic genealogy investigation the state the hiding its entire case. the prosecution said if defendant wishes to explore the theory his dna was planted on the knife sheath he is free to do so. the family tree created by the f.b.i. has no relevance to that theory. we re not anticipating that the judge will make a ruling today on the five motions that he will hear but you know, bill, this has to be resolved soon. the clock is ticking on this trial supposed to start october 2nd. a lot of people think it will be delayed from that start date. bill: dan springer from moscow, idaho. nancy grace coming up shortly. gillian: president biden is touting his own policies lately specifically bidenomics. he insists it is working. high grocery stores costs have a lot of americans telling pollsters now they are less than thrilled with the national economy. more than half of voters in the
charged and sent to michigan after a scheme to extort money off line from that high school senior you see right here. one of the victims was jordan demay and he took his own life. the incident prompted jordan to kill himself and jordan s father is with me now. john, good morning to you. you are from the upper peninsula. the trial is in grand rapids and where we find you today. i understand at the beginning you lost your son in march of last year. and it would take up to a year to bring these gentlemen into a courtroom. it happened in three months. so you were in court yesterday. what did you learn, john? good morning. thank you for having me and sharing jordan s story. it was a very fast extradition process. they were the department of justice and d.a. s office was keeping us in the loop preparing for 9 to 12 months or longer.
and they are awaiting news of the sentencing. let s speak to councillor ian gilbert, the leader of southend council, labour leader, i should say. your reaction to the verdict? mr; i should say. your reaction to the verdict? ~ , ., , i should say. your reaction to the verdict? g ., , ., , . ., verdict? my thoughts are very much a sir david s family, verdict? my thoughts are very much a sir david s family, friends verdict? my thoughts are very much a sir david s family, friends and - sir david s family, friends and colleagues who are reliving these events colleagues who are reliving these events in colleagues who are reliving these events in court and it must have been events in court and it must have been extremely traumatic and i hope the swift been extremely traumatic and i hope the swift trial and guilty verdict can bring the swift trial and guilty verdict can bring an element of closure and, although can bring an element of closure and, although this is something that
to speak about, but the problem simply cannot be allowed to drift on and on and be used as a reason for delaying justice. justice has to be delivered. it also has to be delivered. it also has to be delivered quickly. no more ten year trials leading to uncertain verdicts. the position is completely clear. there is no doubt about putting s responsibility. i hear people saying that the evidence may not be clear, of course it is, not only is it obvious that he instructed the shelling of civilians but, even if that evidence didn t exist, as soon as he sees a television programme showing what happened, he had a legal duty to issue instructions to stop it happening and to bring back for trial in russia the commanders who allowed it to happen. so the evidence is overwhelming that it has got to be brought to a swift trial in order that those who are offenders should spend the rest of their life either subject to trial in absentia showing that they are guilty or alternatively, to life in jail. �