Update on Idaho college killings: Defense reveals alleged details of night Brian Koberger was arrested at parents’ Poconos home

There are new developments in The Idaho College Murder Case as lawyers challenge key evidence they say was illegally obtained by police, including search warrants and DNA.

New court documents from Brian Koberger’s defense team describe the chaotic night the former graduate student was arrested at his parents’ home in the Pennsylvania Poconos area.

His lawyers say that during the raid, law enforcement officers broke down the front door of the house, broke the sliding glass door of the basement and held the entire family at gunpoint. They also claim that while Kochberger was “handcuffed and surrounded by police at gunpoint,” he “made statements to his captors” despite “not being read his rights.”

They now want those statements tossed out along with other key evidence, which lead defense attorney Ann Taylor says was “illegally collected by law enforcement using his genetic information.”

Authorities are linking Koberger to the crime after they say they found DNA that was a “statistical match” on the button of a knife scabbard at the crime scene where Zana Kernolde, Kaylee Gonsalves, Madison Mogen and Ethan Chapin were found stabbed to death.

“When law enforcement uses that positive match and then they say, well, we need to go and get a search warrant because we have a positive match on Brian Koberger, that the DNA evidence is tainted, and all that comes out of it is fruit from a poisonous tree. ” said ABC News contributor Brian Buckmire.

The defense, which says Koberger is innocent, argues that without such genetic information, there would have been no request for his phone records, which prosecutors say also implicates him.

Taylor also challenges the way authorities gathered the search warrants, particularly those that searched Koberger’s car, a white Hyundai Elantra, as well as his Apple and Amazon accounts.

Taylor says there was no probable cause in the warrants.

The trial is scheduled for August and we are still awaiting the judge’s decision defense request for abolition of the death penalty.