Kouri Richins: What the Defense Strategy Is Really Telling Us

Mar 11, 11:00 AM

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Two mistrial motions. Forty prosecution witnesses. A case built entirely on circumstantial evidence. The defense in the Kouri Richins murder trial hasn't shown their full hand yet — but the moves they've already made are saying a lot.

Bob Motta and Robin Dreeke step into the panel to break down the defense's strategy from the ground up. Why file mistrial motions in the middle of the prosecution's case? What does fighting for the full retreat journal — not the redacted version — tell us about where the defense thinks their best argument lives? And in a case where the prosecution's own immunity witnesses came in with credibility problems, is that a gift to the defense or a trap?

Carmen Lauber was meth-positive when she testified. Robert Crozier signed a sworn affidavit saying the drugs were OxyContin — then reversed course at trial. Both are central to the prosecution's chain of evidence. This panel goes deep on what happens to a circumstantial case when the witnesses anchoring the means evidence are this compromised — and whether the defense can actually capitalize on it.

Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty to the alleged fentanyl poisoning of her husband Eric Richins. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

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