Just days after prosecutors added his sister, Amanda Kohberger, to their witness list, Bryan Kohberger agreed to a plea deal, abruptly ending the case before it could go to trial, new court filings reveal.

Newly unsealed court documents show that Amanda Kohberger appeared on the state’s amended witness list and was also named on the defense’s mitigation witness list by lead attorney Anne Taylor.

The overlapping filings show that Amanda was positioned as a potential witness for both sides in the weeks before Kohberger’s plea.

Within days of the June 25 filing that listed his sister as a prosecution witness, he accepted a plea deal that spared the case from going to trial.

The filings highlight the contrasting strategies at play. Prosecutors’ June 25 witness list spans 180 names, from

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