Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger will return to court for the first time in more than two months to argue for excluding nearly all evidence collected by police.

Attorneys for Bryan Kohberger, the Monroe County man charged with the murders of four University of Idaho students, are asking a judge to throw out most of the evidence in the case.

BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of murdering four University of Idaho students, is scheduled to have a court hearing on Thursday. According to court documents, the defendant, Kohberger, had a series of hearings this week to discuss 'IGG' or Investigative Genetic Geneology - a method of identifying suspects in criminal cases.

Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger is back in court for pre-trial hearings ahead of his summer murder trial for the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students.

Phone records, surveillance footage and DNA evidence are on the chopping block in Idaho college murders suspect Bryan Kohberger’s case as his attorneys say key evidence was obtained illegally. NBC’s Laura Jarrett reports for TODAY.

Hippler was appointed to oversee the trial, replacing Judge John Judge, when the trial moved from Latah County to Boise after the defense successfully argued that he would not have an impartial jury in the tight-knit community of Moscow because of the extensive media coverage potentially tainting the jury pool.

Judge to rule this week on DNA evidence in Bryan Kohberger case as defense challenges genetic genealogy linking him to Idaho college murders.