Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty for the quadruple murders. Death by a firing squad is an option in Idaho.

Hippler said that the trial is set to begin on August 11 and is expected to take three months, according to News Nation correspondent Brian Entin on X, formerly Twitter. The judge also laid out times and dates for the trial, saying they will go Monday through Friday from 8:45 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. local time.

Bryan Kohberger, the former criminology grad student accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, appeared in court Thursday morning in one of the last pretrial hearings before the start of his much-anticipated trial.