Three hearings in Bryan Kohberger’s case have been taken off the schedule, Fox News reported Oct. 14, 2026, citing an attorney for Kohberger’s family. The report said the first hearing had been set for Thursday, with two others scheduled for next year.
The first hearing was expected to address a motion by Kohberger’s Idaho attorney, Greg Rauch, seeking to disqualify Judge Steven Hippler over concerns about potential bias. The report said Hippler had issued an amended scheduling order, but it was not yet public. The order may affect other court deadlines, Fox News reported.
Jason Goldman, a New York attorney representing Kohberger’s family, characterized the canceled hearings as the start of a longer post-conviction process.
Kohberger was arrested in December 2022 in connection with the November stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students. In July 2025, he pleaded guilty under an agreement that spared him the death penalty. The source report says he later sought to withdraw his plea, alleging ineffective counsel and that he had been misled. It also says he filed a handwritten motion claiming innocence.
The reasons for vacating the hearings and the court’s revised schedule were not available in the supplied report.
