“The scheduled five-week trial was cut short last week when Kouri Richins waived her right to testify, and her legal team abruptly rested its case without calling any witnesses.
Richins’ lawyers said they were confident that prosecutors did not produce enough evidence to convict her of murder.”
They gambled, they lost.
John
1 month ago
In today’s wacky mixed-up world I was more than half expecting the “Utah Woman” to have a body full of Y chromosomes.
Ottokring
1 month ago
She was just doing some research.
Bloke in North Dorset
1 month ago
I’m a bad man, that made me laugh out loud.
Interested
1 month ago
‘Kouri’ Richins sounds a bit Native American to me, plus she’s a woman.
Her husband ‘Eric’ sounds suspiciously white.
She will rightly either be released on appeal or the next Dem pres will pardon her.
Jonathan
1 month ago
I wonder how that particular business idea would go down on Dragons Den?
Michael van der Riet
1 month ago
Good grief.
PiP Supreme Leader
1 month ago
A nice stereotypical murder – she poisoned him.
The dead husband’s family seemingly hired a Hercule Poirot to investigate.
I once went to a wedding where the best man in his speech had the happy couple turn to face each before he delivered the line, ‘congratulations, you’ve just met the person most likely to murder you’.
Oh, how we laughed.
Lord T
1 month ago
They do say that when you kill someone it changes you and you will carry that burden to the grave.
Yeah this is why I wouldn’t want to be a train driver – too many people who kill themselves at level crossings – and am very careful to avoid driving my van while tired or under the influence. Or looking at my phone while driving for that matter, see far too many idiots who do and if any of them hit anyone then you know they’ll be thinking back to that moment, and what they did that led up to it, every day for the rest of their lives.
A friends son always wanted to be a train driver. He had to spend 2 years doing other jobs then had loads of psychological testing before they’d even consider him for training.
Apparently they are not only concerned about having to deal with suicides but also having the temperament to deal with the high levels of safety standards, you don’t want them getting bored and overriding safety systems because they know best.
Baron Jackfield
1 month ago
Presumably she’ll be pleading for leniency in sentencing as she’s a “poor widow-woman”.
My thought too. It reminded of that old joke about the definition of chutzpah, where the boy killed his parents and then threw himself on the mercy of the court because he was an orphan.
M
1 month ago
I wonder if she can get the verdict set aside on the basis that she received incompetent counsel.
Admittedly this is the newspaper report, so it’s incomplete. But the evidence the prosecution introduced seems damning, though mostly circumstantial. For the defense to offer no impeachment of any of the evidence seems…lazy.
There might have been some sort of deal struck, but what’s worse than aggravated murder that you would try to avoid? Did prosecution say they were going to ask for the death penalty?
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Gamecock
1 month ago
As much as Gamecock likes pendantry, irony is still better.
Agammamon
1 month ago
She will ask the court for leniency as she is a widow;)
“The scheduled five-week trial was cut short last week when Kouri Richins waived her right to testify, and her legal team abruptly rested its case without calling any witnesses.
Richins’ lawyers said they were confident that prosecutors did not produce enough evidence to convict her of murder.”
They gambled, they lost.
In today’s wacky mixed-up world I was more than half expecting the “Utah Woman” to have a body full of Y chromosomes.
She was just doing some research.
I’m a bad man, that made me laugh out loud.
‘Kouri’ Richins sounds a bit Native American to me, plus she’s a woman.
Her husband ‘Eric’ sounds suspiciously white.
She will rightly either be released on appeal or the next Dem pres will pardon her.
I wonder how that particular business idea would go down on Dragons Den?
Good grief.
A nice stereotypical murder – she poisoned him.
The dead husband’s family seemingly hired a Hercule Poirot to investigate.
Miss Christie would be proud.
I once went to a wedding where the best man in his speech had the happy couple turn to face each before he delivered the line, ‘congratulations, you’ve just met the person most likely to murder you’.
Oh, how we laughed.
They do say that when you kill someone it changes you and you will carry that burden to the grave.
Perhaps that is the grief she is writing about.
Yeah this is why I wouldn’t want to be a train driver – too many people who kill themselves at level crossings – and am very careful to avoid driving my van while tired or under the influence. Or looking at my phone while driving for that matter, see far too many idiots who do and if any of them hit anyone then you know they’ll be thinking back to that moment, and what they did that led up to it, every day for the rest of their lives.
A friends son always wanted to be a train driver. He had to spend 2 years doing other jobs then had loads of psychological testing before they’d even consider him for training.
Apparently they are not only concerned about having to deal with suicides but also having the temperament to deal with the high levels of safety standards, you don’t want them getting bored and overriding safety systems because they know best.
Presumably she’ll be pleading for leniency in sentencing as she’s a “poor widow-woman”.
My thought too. It reminded of that old joke about the definition of chutzpah, where the boy killed his parents and then threw himself on the mercy of the court because he was an orphan.
I wonder if she can get the verdict set aside on the basis that she received incompetent counsel.
Admittedly this is the newspaper report, so it’s incomplete. But the evidence the prosecution introduced seems damning, though mostly circumstantial. For the defense to offer no impeachment of any of the evidence seems…lazy.
There might have been some sort of deal struck, but what’s worse than aggravated murder that you would try to avoid? Did prosecution say they were going to ask for the death penalty?
As much as Gamecock likes pendantry, irony is still better.
She will ask the court for leniency as she is a widow;)