Bryan Kohberger accepts plea deal in Idaho student murders case, agreeing to plead guilty in exchange for avoiding death penalty for killing four college students in 2022

I can’t think of anybody else I’d rather have doing this case,” another longtime county prosecutor and friend to Bill Thompson said.

On Nov. 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in an off-campus house in a crime that sent shockwaves through the town.

The Bryan Kohberger plea deal in Idaho is not the first controversial bargain struck by the same District Attorney's Office ... because the top prosecutor made a similar deal nearly 29 years ago to the day

Kohberger is expected in court on July 2 to plead guilty to the murders of four University of Idaho students in a deal to avoid the death penalty.

Bryan Kohberger agreed to a plea deal in the trial of the murders of all four University of Idaho students. NBC News' Gadi Schwartz talks about how plea deals work and how often they are used.

Judges can reject plea agreements in Idaho, but it is a rare occurrence. The judge in Kohberger’s case previously denied a defense attorney motion to remove the death penalty from consideration that had argued Kohberger’s autism diagnosis made him less culpable.