An Idaho trial court granted Bryan Kohberger an evidentiary hearing on September 1 on his claim that attorney Anne Taylor was ineffective, with the hearing scheduled for next June. A newly unsealed memo shows Taylor told Judge Hippler that Kohberger was struggling to rationally understand his case days before his 2025 plea. The hair evidence Kohberger says was withheld was tested by his own expert, Ruth Ballard, who found it matched Ethan Chapin. Kohberger is also seeking to withdraw his guilty plea, and private attorney Gregory Rauch and New York attorney Jason Goldman have joined his defense team. The state's response to the ineffective-counsel claim and the plea-withdrawal request has not been reported.