Resolution Criteria

The trial is scheduled to last until March 27, 2026, with closing arguments scheduled for Monday (March 17) and jury deliberations to follow. The market resolves YES if Kouri Richins is found guilty of murder (aggravated murder or attempted aggravated murder) before April 1, 2026. The market resolves NO if she is acquitted, the jury deadlocks, or no verdict is reached by April 1, 2026. Resolution will be determined by official court records from the Summit County District Court in Park City, Utah.

Background

Prosecutors say the Utah mother of three killed her husband, Eric Richins, with a lethal dose of fentanyl in March 2022. She is also accused of attempting to kill him by lacing his sandwich on Valentine's Day, weeks before his death. Kouri Richins is charged with aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder, first-degree felonies, two counts of insurance fraud, a second-degree felony, and forgery, a third-degree felony. If she is found guilty of aggravated murder, she faces 25 years to life in prison.

Summit County prosecutors called 42 individual witnesses over 2.5 weeks and the defense rested without calling any witnesses, with Richins not testifying during the trial. Kouri Richins has pleaded not guilty, with her defense arguing she has been wrongfully blamed for Eric Richins' death and that prosecutors are unable to prove how the fentanyl entered Richins' body.

Considerations

The defense has argued that a key prosecution witness has changed their story and that the evidence against her is largely circumstantial. Investigators found a bag of loose hydrocodone pills in the house that were tested and did not contain fentanyl, and investigators did not find fentanyl on anything tested in the house. The jury will decide the case based on circumstantial evidence, witness testimony credibility, and the prosecution's theory of how the fentanyl was administered.

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