Bicka Barlow, a California attorney who specializes in DNA analysis, will join the defense team for the murder trial set to begin this summer.

Jay Logsdon, North Idaho’s state public defender and co-counsel for the case’s defense, will be replaced for Kohberger’s capital murder trial, a Thursday court order said. Taking Logsdon’s spot is a Northern California attorney who specializes in DNA and previously testified as a paid consultant for the defense.

An Idaho judge declined to throw out key evidence against the man charged with murder in connection with the killings of four University of Idaho students.

A DNA defense specialist has been officially added to Bryan Kohberger's defense trial counsel in light of the judge's decision to use DNA evidence the police discovered in the muder case

North Idaho’s State public defender and co-counsel for the case is out. It is not clear why the attorneys in the case were switched out.