Kouri Richins Preliminary Hearing | Day 2

uh M Neer M Lewis I imagine M richens would like to enter police of not guilty to all charges correct does she wave reading of the third amended information we W reading the court m richens is entering pleas of not guilty to counts 1 through 11 in the third amended information words light to go for we'd like to S trial have you had a reasonably detailed conversation with State about numbers of witnesses length of time because I'm going to have some questions we have discussed it and what we have what we have uh agreed to I don't know if it works with the court calendar is we would like to set aside four weeks basically month May to try the cas so we think that'll include jury selection so we figure the jury selection is going to be at least a week and three weeks for try you give any thought to pre-trial motion practice we have discussion regarding jury elction is going to be some questions regarding preserving the Integrity of the jury selection process correct we've discussed it um we haven't set particular dates for motions although I believe we thought it would be two yeah we should two rounds of uh pre-trial briefing and motions and the we need to do scheduling on or we need to do a scheduling order on those motions can we start having those conversations regarding pre-trial deadlines Maybe pre-trial conference in mid-september yes we're in trial until September 20th though so actually we could just do late September like yeah after that does that make sense Mr L yes okay give me just a moment yeah that's my next question Council I have a couple of questions here and if you're not prepared to answer these we can continue this discussion but first rather than the entire month of May we just say the last week of April the first three weeks of may we were a little bit worried because I think Easter's really late this year and um Memorial is included in the day some you're right FR pan Into the Fire more to the point My Signing week is the last week of May on Memorial Day it could be tough for me to straight out of that um we I think we checked this we were trying to avoid spring break excuse me hold on second I'm in the WR let's try this again my apologies oh it is there again did I get Memorial twice is that possible hold on a second I did we'll review who I pissed off to get that uh but uh with two questions one that will be hard to trade out of two I need my friend is right I think we took that into consideration when we decided we thought it would take three weeks okay uh well for counting jury selection um the only concern we had was about Easter week that people traveled and we were trying to avoid losing jurors who might travel over Easter so that's why we started I'd almost rather push it to the first week of June and and take that day is it a week that you do that whatever oh I don't know what that is so Easter in 2025 is April 20th I think we're going to be okay okay then we could do the last week of April so what I'm asking you is April 28th through May 22 right not including Fridays right the idea being that jury selection would be April 28th through May 1 yeah so then let's talk um we going to have lots of questions about how we're going to do this we're going to have to we'll have a discussion about whether we're doing half days each of those days for jury selection whether we're going to ask jurors to be available the whole age of those days whether we're we'll need to have a discussion about whether we're doing four anies one for each day right I do anticipate your honor there will be a lot of the individual V based on the U I imagine and so we'll want to be thoughtful about how many we' ask to come each day right um I'll need to reserve sufficient resources in terms of people power and jury selection slots Third District policy is we do this to convert using the virtual jury selection system you're going to have to file a motion inside extraordinary circumstances not my decision um okay we can have that discussion too yeah so right now that's fine block it for now discussion what's that Britney what do we have going on in the afternoon in September 27 it's 3 p.m. yeah just do this uh Council are you available on the morning of the 26th or the 26th before say 2: p.m. I may be in a trial would it be all right if if I can't make it if miss you we might both be in trial there's a chance we could be in trial that day a chance it's it's for three day trial I'm sorry it's set for 3 days and um I think it's only going to take two it's a trial down in Sal Lake so we could just tentatively s it need to well in the afternoon better in case we can't wait on a jury or something all right let's avoid that day 27th is bad if we could do it remotely we could definitely on the 26th in the morning or the afternoon in the afternoon would be better I I'm sure the judge would give us if we need to step out and do a take a break I I I've already Mo to hearing once I'm sorry I can't do it in the afternoon okay bear with me I'm sure this is like nails on a chalkboard to all of you I apologize so he said something he did what do we have at 130 that's what do we have for the yeah good all right uh Council uh the morning of October 22 no can't do that I'm sorry my goodness this is the problem I'm going to have to push something out of the way M Rich uh I apologize I'm thinking about this the wrong way M Lis M Neer I think we need to hold an initial pre-trial conference to start talking through pre-trial deadlines and and start talking about jury selection tell me when you'd like to do it I will make room 30 September Monday I unfortunately be out state that whole week that I can't fix about the afternoon of the 23rd later sep September September 23rd later afternoon like three we'll make it work uh would you like that to be in person or by web whatever you prefer we'll probably come up and prefering person is 3 p.m. orable yes sir okay Mr Bloodworth yes sir all right we'll set a pre-trial conference for September 23 at 300 p.m. in person than you Council I need you to start talking to each other about issues you anticipate pre-ra deadlines I won't be able to see around every corner I would appreciate your input given your experience on how you'd like to conduct this when you start talking about your a selection uh to the extent I'm going to have to ask for special treatment favors or the extent you want to file motions to try and secure an exception from the standard practice in the Third District we need to get I would prefer that you have notice of how you're going to be taking the jury in this case as early as possible okay Mr pleth anything to that no your honor thank you Miss Lewis no your honor Miss no sir thank you Mr Ras thank you m richs I'll see you again on September 23 at 3 p.m. I wish you the best of Lu cours and recess thank you sh