(27 Aug 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Park City, Utah – 27 August 2024
1. Kouri Richins talks to attorneys
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Brad Bloodworth, Summit County Prosecutor:
"She learned she needed something stronger. She also learned how to administer it. She learned that putting it in a sandwich where Eric Richins could take a bite, feel the effects, set the sandwich down, was not the proper way to administer a fatal dose of fentanyl. Instead, she administered it with a lemon shot where Eric Richards would throw it back all at once."
3. Richins listens to testimony
+++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY COVERED+++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Wendy Lewis, Defense Attorney:
"There’s no evidence he ever took a pill from her. There’s no evidence that she ever. if she put fentanyl in his egg sandwich at 9:30 and he ate it, he would not be okay for two more hours. He would not. And there’s zero evidence, there’s not one piece of evidence from Eric himself that he ever took anything from Kouri that day, that he felt bad up until 11:33 is the first time he feels bad."
5. Kouri Richins talks to attorneys
+++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY COVERED+++
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Mrazik, Utah State Judge:
"These facts, taken together, would support issuance of a search warrant to investigate whether Miss Richins had attempted to cause the death of her husband. They would support issuance of an arrest warrant for her arrest on attempted murder, and they are sufficient to support bind over under the probable cause standard."
7. Judge recesses court
STORYLINE:
A Utah mother of three who published a children’s book about grief after her husband’s death and was later accused of fatally poisoning him will stand trial.
Utah state Judge Richard Mrazik ruled on the second day of Kouri Richins’ preliminary hearing that prosecutors had presented enough evidence against her to proceed with a jury trial.
She faces a slew of felony charges for allegedly killing her husband with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022 at their home in a small mountain town near Park City.
Prosecutors say Kouri Richins slipped five times the lethal dose of the synthetic opioid into a cocktail that Eric Richins drank.
Kouri Richins appeared stoic as the judge delivered the news that a jury would decide her fate.
She has been adamant in maintaining she is innocent and entered pleas of “not guilty” to all 11 counts on Tuesday.
The second day of her preliminary hearing centered around an additional attempted murder charge filed earlier this year that accused her of slipping fentanyl into her husband’s sandwich on Valentine’s Day 2022, causing a severe but nonfatal reaction.
Summit County Prosecutor Brad Bloodworth defended the charge by describing how he thinks Kouri Richins learned lessons during the first unsuccessful attempt on her husband’s life that helped her carry out the killing 17 days later.
Defense attorney Wendy Lewis argued that because police never found fentanyl in the Richins home, detectives could not be certain that the drugs Kouri Richins bought from the housekeeper matched those found in Eric Richins’ system.
“These are great trial arguments,” Mrazik responded, but he wondered aloud whether any of their arguments were strong enough to make the case that there wasn’t probable cause for the charges.
In the months before her arrest in May 2023, the Utah mother self-published the children’s book “Are You with Me?” about a father with angel wings watching over his young son after passing away.
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