What Kouri Richins Is Planning After Her Life Sentence

On the day Kouri Richins’ defense team was supposed to respond to prosecutors, they didn’t. They filed a sealed motion instead — hidden from public view — asking the judge to pause her entire case. Prosecutors call the reason she gave ‘a misleading pretext.’

Richins was convicted of poisoning her husband Eric Richins with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl. She tried it first on Valentine’s Day with a laced sandwich, then two weeks later with a cocktail at their home near Park City. The jury returned guilty verdicts on all counts in under three hours. She’s serving life without parole.

Her defense has pushed multiple post-conviction challenges. A new trial motion alleging judicial hostility. A motion to disqualify Judge Richard Mrazik. A separate judge denied the disqualification, finding no extreme behavior or deep-seated antagonism in the trial record. Mrazik returned to the case.

The sealed motion the defense filed asks the court to wait for a separate obstruction investigation to play out before ruling on the new trial motion. Prosecutors say the real purpose isn’t to support the existing arguments — it’s to build entirely new ones. The original claim was about the judge’s conduct during the trial. The new claim is about what happened in a closed hearing before trial. Prosecutor Brad Bloodworth wrote that the two complaints don’t connect.

At the center of the obstruction investigation is a detective who worked the Richins case, a sheriff running for reelection who allegedly tried to use anonymous allegations against that detective, and a recorded jail call where a man described as Kouri’s admirer explains why he helped that sheriff’s campaign. The explanation goes straight back to the detective who built the case against her.

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