Pennsylvania witnesses challenge subpoenas for Bryan Kohberger murder trial in Idaho, citing hardships while judge upholds most requests despite personal and professional concerns
Many of Bryan Kohberger’s defense witnesses don’t want to go to Idaho and testify at his upcoming murder trial – including his former boxing coach, who told a Pennsylvania judge the suspected killer never competed and just came to work out.
Jesse Harris, a boxing gym owner and contractor who Kohberger claimed to have studied under as a teen, asked a Pennsylvania judge to block his subpoena in the case based on undue hardship and the fact that it’s been almost 15 years since he saw the 30-year-old Kohberger.
Harris said his wife is fighting cancer, and he can’t step away from his business for «20 minutes», let alone the time it would take to travel to and from Boise.
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Kohberger’s father brought him to Harris’ gym to build up his confidence when he was 15, the pugilist said.
He described the operation as a place for kids to go when they couldn’t make the cut on other sports teams. He said Kohberger never competed – he just worked out.
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Kohberger never even sparred there, he said, although the suspected killer wrote on a job application previously obtained by Fox News Digital that he «boxed every day after school at the Jesse Harris Boxing Gym.
