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Failure wasn’t an option.

With the entire case against Bryan Kohberger on the line, an Idaho prosecutor held steady and helped convince a judge to allow controversial DNA evidence to stand – despite the FBI violating its own policy to obtain it.

Jeff Nye, chief of the criminal division at the Idaho Attorney General’s Office, was the legal big gun brought in to back up Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson as Kohberger’s defense threw a "kitchen sink" strategy at the court – challenging everything and hoping something would stick.

"Just pure evil is the way that I would describe him," Nye said of Kohberger. "I think it was surreal, especially going up to Latah County, you know, small courtroom, small town. When I kind of g

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