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Kouri Richins, the Utah mother accused of spiking her husband’s cocktail with a fatal dose of fentanyl, made her first comments since she was arrested last year in a series of jailhouse statements that criticized prosecutors, asserted her innocence and described recent upheaval in the case as “forced.
When one of the defense lawyers discovered the practice and asked prosecutors whether they were aware of it, Summit County's top elected prosecutor, Margaret Olson, responded, “NO!” according to emails included in the filing. Minutes later, lead prosecutor Brad Bloodworth wrote that because one of the defense lawyers had refused to use a phone app that shields attorney-client calls, those calls had been recorded and that the lawyer was “well aware of this.
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