IDAHO murder suspect Bryan Kohberger has secured a major court victory after a judge sided with his defense team to establish a deadline on DNA evidence.

Prosecutors have until December 1 to turn over key DNA evidence critical to the case.

Judge John Judge agreed in the past to review the familial DNA prosecutors used to name Kohberger as a suspect to determine if it would be turned over to the defense.

Prosecutors said in court on Thursday that the delay was due to getting all of the genetic genealogy information by getting reports from the FBI and the private lab used by investigators.

Judge said the reason for the deadline was so he could review all the evidence at once but added that there was a possibility of potential delays if the Department of Justice didn’t produce the reports by the deadline.

Genetic genealogy is a process that takes DNA evidence and compares it to genetic information from family members who have used genealogy websites such as Ancestry or 23andMe.

The evidence could be a huge component of Kohberger’s defense, however, there are privacy concerns with the information as names and genetic information of people unrelated to the case could be included from family trees in the reports, said Brian Entin of NewsNation.

Kohberger is accused of murdering four University of Idaho students, Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin.

The students were found stabbed to death at their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho on November 13, 2022.

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The Moscow Police Department spent almost two months conducting a multi-state manhunt that attracted tens of thousands of tips and public attention to track Kohberger down.

Kohberger, a graduate student studying criminology at Washington State University, was arrested over a month later on December 30 in Monroe County, Pennsylvania.

He was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one charge of burglary.

Kohberger was identified using genetic genealogy prosecutors said, by using possible family connections and other DNA evidence such as the white Hyundai Elantra seen near the crime scene.

In May, a not-guilty plea was entered on Kohberger’s behalf.

The motive for the crime remains unknown.

Although investigators initially said that the murders seemed to be an isolated incident and that Kohberger had not previously known the victims, evidence that emerged later suggested a different story.

During the investigation, police learned he had allegedly visited the vicinity of the friends’ home at least 12 times leading up to the murders, and had messaged them previously – to no avail – on social media.

The University of Idaho plans to tear down the house where the massacre occurred at some point in the future.