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Let's go. Today we are going to court live for the coverage of the Corey Richens preliminary hearing.

If you remember Cori Richens is accused by the state of poisoning

her husband, she wasn't arrested till over a year

after his death in Utah.

She had written a children's book about grief,

but that's not all she wrote.

She also wrote the Walk the Dog letter that I have covered on this channel.

She also wrote quite a lot of letters from custody saying that those were another novel

and they were not in fact her telling witnesses what they should testify to and then the state brought

more charges.

So today we are here for the preliminary hearing on all of the charges.

Murder, attempted murder for a prior incident where her husband ate what the state has alleged to be a laced sandwich on

Valentine's Day prior to his death in early March and they have also charged her

with bank fraud, mortgage fraud, and a couple other frauds. A note about preliminary hearing. Preliminary hearings are just to determine if there's probable cause to hold someone to answer for trial. This is not a full trial. There is no jury

present. The judge is the finder of facts. The judge determines if the state has

proven each charge. The court reaches the following determinations.

First, for the reasons described at the detention hearing,

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