New Delhi, July 29 -- MOSCOW, IDAHO - The families of four University of Idaho students stabbed to death in November 2022 said Monday they were ready for trial again. Their statement came a day after Bryan Kohberger filed a court petition seeking to void the guilty plea he had entered six weeks earlier, claiming his own defense attorneys had advised him to make statements he believed were false.

The petition, filed Sunday in Idaho's Fourth Judicial District court, is the most disruptive legal development in a case that had appeared to be closing. Kohberger, who pleaded guilty in June 2026 to four counts of first-degree murder, is now arguing that the plea is constitutionally invalid. According to documents cited by multiple news organiza...