But he was bold enough to (return) to the scene that morning right in Moscow…. (And captured on CCTV in the process)
We may be talking about two different times. I'm talking about when he dropped down to go shopping on Sunday and back into Pullman.
I don't think we know whether he was out of compliance with the WA Vehicle Code or at least I don't. The link on that code you provided says it applies to people who move to WA AND are considered residents. It further says "You are considered a resident when you register to vote, receive state benefits, apply for any state license at residential rates, or seek in-state tuition rates." Honestly we don't know if he'd done any of those things prior or to November, do we? I know I don't. There's no reason to suspect he'd applied for in-state tuition rates yet (although he got a waiver from being a TA) and I doubt TA pay is considered a "state benefit." Do we know if he'd registered to vote?
According to this story, he received the WA plate on Dec 5.
Idaho murders: Bryan Kohberger changed license plate five days after student slayings
Bryan Kohberger, who was charged with murdering four University of Idaho students, changed his license plate five days after the Moscow killings.www.foxnews.com
So he was driving with PA plates well past the deadline of Nov 30 assuming he drove the car between Dec 1& Dec 5. (The link also notes the affidavit noted the PA plate expired Nov 30.) I know in my state, a receipt showing the new plate has been ordered can be shown to LE if it doesn't arrive in time. At any rate, he doesn't appear to have been stopped for having an expired plate. And it's unclear to me if he was in violation of the Vehicle Code.
JMO
Some great humour here Sister Golden Hair. "Blood-B-Gone" - such a great name for an oxygen bleach.
We have a janitorial business. A couple weeks ago one of my customers asked me to go to his brother in law's condo. BIL had had a biopsy on his ankle that bled. It didn't just bleed, it looked like a murder had taken place. (BIL is a functional <modsnip> gentleman in his 70's. He has no common sense.) I cleaned everything that was a hard surface and suggested they get a company that could handle the blood now imbedded in the cream color carpet. They hired carpet cleaners. They stains did not come out. So once again I was asked to go back and give it my best shot. I brought Oxyclean for clothing. Sprayed the now commercially cleaned stains and waited. Then I used a Bissell hand held carpet machine. Stains all disappeared like magic. It's truly an amazing cleaner that I have used on other blood stains over the years while working. It does not damage the different types of materials I have used it on so it is not obvious like chlorine bleach. I've always told my hubby, if you murder me, use Oxyclean.I think that the trick with this is that oxygen bleaches are not an unusual shopping item. I buy Oxyclean, and I'm not cleaning up a crime scene, haven't murdered anyone, and I think that's probably the case for most Oxyclean buyers. Church & Dwight sell millions of dollars a year in the stuff.
OxiClean - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
I think the trick with the prosecution using Oxyclean or some other innocuous cleaning product would be to prove that it was unusual (at least for him, and good luck with that) and in enough quantity and there would need to be physical evidence (via testing, for example) to show the presence of that cleaner. Just showing that he had the innocuous cleaning product wouldn't be enough because probably most of the people in the courtroom and on the jury have innocuous cleaning products, too. Without being able to tie those products to the crime in obvious, compelling fashion, IMO ERs 401, 402, 403 would be stumbling blocks to admission.
Article IV. Relevancy and its Limits
401. Test for Relevant Evidence.
402. General Admissibility of Relevant Evidence.
403. Excluding Relevant Evidence for Prejudice, Confusion, Waste of Time, or Other Reasons.
The use of white vinegar and baking soda was also discussed a few threads back, but again, not unusual for cleaning (esp in the PNW), so even if it can be used to clean a crime scene, most people who are buying it are not using it to clean crime scenes. Again, there would have to be evidence that he'd done some big clean up. At the time, the discussion was around his apartment, and whether or not he'd done a clean-up there. I believe that if LE had found evidence of a big clean-up, they'd have removed the evidence for testing (for ex, a chunk of carpet where it was suspected) or some other physical piece of the apartment. LE did remove a part of the countertop to test for blood.
Page 10, Marked A - Collected item
Everything that was considered evidence (either because of that it was or because it tested presumptive positive for blood) was taken because it's evidence and can't just be left there. Everything else was left (not evidence). If there had been any massive clean-up apparent in the apartment, the evidence of that would have been collected. According to the Evidence Collection Log (starting page 8), there was nothing like that taken.
Point of all of that is to say that if there was a massive clean-up of the car using bleach or the Oxyclean version, that would probably show up in tests. It could be that is the case but the reason I question that is the exonerating evidence cited by the defense. I have a hard time believing AT would make a false claim in a motion to compel. Just me and IMO.
What I quoted from the link you provided did not say "WA law says that if you are living there, you must apply within 30 days." Otherwise every undergrad in the state would need to title his/her car in WA and that's not true. (See, for example @Sister Golden Hair's discussion of students and car registrations.) There are some conditions included in what's said. It says "Just moved to Washington State? You have 30 days to title, register and get WA plates on your vehicle. (You can get a $529 minimum traffic fine if you are a resident and do not license your vehicle in this state. You are considered a resident when you register to vote, receive state benefits, apply for any state license at residential rates, or seek in-state tuition rates.)
Yup!
AH, my apologies I see what you are saying now. I misunderstood, was thinking more re continuity of registration rather than the implications for BK of not within 30 days OF ARRIVAL in WA, changing his plates over. I do see what you are getting at now and again apologies for any confusion. He was within the law re keeping his registration up to date, but not changing plate to WA within 30 days of arrival may have had ramifications. MOO
Pair everything you stated with BK, the “ Criminology PhD. student/teaching assistant” and we have a defendant who, IMOO, is going to micro-examine every word on every document (I would do the same) and his excellent defense team-
registrar.washington.edu
I don't recall that he was seen on cctv the next morning -- can you remind me where/when that capture was?
The jury will weigh the facts, I trust them.
And to think that's just the angle my attorney and I were planning. I guess it's back to Twinkies for me.we've never yet heard a perp exclaim "I did it because I read it on Websleuths"
What I'm hoping is that the evidence is quite clear either way. I'm not vested in his guilt or his innocence. What I really want to see is all of the evidence laid out, and I want to see it be obvious, no namby-pamby-sorta-kinda BARD. I want it to be either Oh yeah he did it or No way he did it. But definitely we're not there yet. And I want the June 27 hearing re the motion to compel to fill in some of those blanks. Oh, and I want all of my questions answered or at least the Top 10 during the trial. But then that's all I want. That's it
