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Speaker 1: Crime a art hourly update, breaking crime news.

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Speaker 2: Now, I'm Nicol pardon. The Utah Supreme Court has turned

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Speaker 2: down requests from both prosecutors and defense attorneys involved in

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Speaker 2: the murder trial of Corey Richins. In a unanimous ruling today,

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Speaker 2: the justices dismissed the lawyer's proposals to broaden the jury

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Speaker 2: pool and to conduct in person interviews with potential jurors.

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Speaker 2: Associate Chief Justice John Pierce noted in the court's opinion quote,

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Speaker 2: the parties argue that a Utah law permits a criminal

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Speaker 2: defendant to be tried by jurors from a different county

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Speaker 2: than where the trial is held, suggesting that jurors from

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Speaker 2: multiple counties can be summoned for a single trial. We

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Speaker 2: find this argument unconvincing. There is a clear distinction between

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Speaker 2: summoning jurors from a different county and summoning jurors from

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Speaker 2: two counties for one single trial, he continued. Attorneys representing

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Speaker 2: Richins and the Summit County prosecutors collaborated to contest Judge

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Speaker 2: Richard murry decision, which had denied their request to enlarge

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Speaker 2: the jury pool. The legal teams aimed to include jurors

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Speaker 2: from Salt Lake County in addition to those from Summit County.

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Speaker 2: Richins has been incarcerated for eighteen months, and both sides

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Speaker 2: are eager to keep the trial, anticipated to last a month,

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Speaker 2: from being relocated. They expressed concerns about assembling an unbiased

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Speaker 2: jury due to the extensive media coverage surrounding the case. Additionally,

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Speaker 2: the lawyers opposed a ruling by the presiding judge of

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Speaker 2: the Third District, who rejected their plea for in person

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Speaker 2: jury selection, opting instead for a virtual process, as is

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Speaker 2: currently the standard. Judge Laura Scott dismissed claims that the

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Speaker 2: prominent nature of the Richins case warranted a face to

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Speaker 2: face jury selection. The Utah Supreme Court justices affirmed that

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Speaker 2: Judge Scott acted within her authority in the ruling. Corey

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Speaker 2: Richins faces charges of murder, accused of administering a lethal

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Speaker 2: dose of fentanyl to her husband through a drink in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. Prosecutors have also alleged that she altered

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Speaker 2: Eric Richands's life insurance policy prior to his death. The

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Speaker 2: case has attracted considerable attention, especially since Richards authored a

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Speaker 2: children's book on how to deal with grief. Beyond the

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Speaker 2: appeal to the Utah Supreme Court. Richard's attorneys have sought

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Speaker 2: to relocate her trial out of Summit County, citing the

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Speaker 2: overwhelming media scrutiny the case has experienced. Judge Meserik recently

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Speaker 2: denied this request, prompting the defense to announce their intention

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Speaker 2: to appeal. Missus Richins is bound over for trial and

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Speaker 2: she will remain presumed innocent of all charges through trial.

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Speaker 2: Count On Crime Alert hourly update to keep you posted

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Speaker 2: as this trial unfolds. More crime and justice news after this.

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Speaker 1: How could a use a full young first grade teacher

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Speaker 1: be stabbed twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die

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Speaker 1: of suicide? Yes, that was a medical examiner's official ruling

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Speaker 1: after a closed door meeting. He first named it a homicide.

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Speaker 1: Why what happened to Ellen Greenberg? A huge American miscarriage

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Speaker 1: of justice. For an in depth look at the facts,

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Speaker 1: see What Happened to Ellen on Amazon. All proceeds to

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Speaker 1: the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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Speaker 2: In Ohio, a twenty seven year old man is facing

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Speaker 2: murder charges after allegedly fatally stabbing his father. Mackaa Swindler

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Speaker 2: was arrested on Monday, following the incident involving his father,

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Speaker 2: Joe Swindler. According to the Marysville Police Department, officers responded

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Speaker 2: to a nine to one one call reporting a stabbing

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Speaker 2: at the residence on Meadow Lark Lane that's about thirty

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Speaker 2: three miles northeast of Columbus. Upon their arrival, first responders

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Speaker 2: discovered an adult male victim inside the home with multiple

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Speaker 2: stab wounds. Unfortunately, he was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Speaker 2: Macaiah Swindler was found inside the house and was taken

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Speaker 2: into custody without resistance. A search of the premises confirmed

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Speaker 2: that there were no other victims or other residents inside.

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Speaker 2: While the victim's identity has not been immediately released by authorities,

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Speaker 2: audio recordings from the nine to one one call made

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Speaker 2: by Macaiah reveal that he confessed to killing his father.

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Speaker 2: In the call, he says, quote, I just killed my father,

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Speaker 2: to which the dispatcher responded in disbelief, he says again,

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Speaker 2: I killed my dad. When questioned further, When asked why

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Speaker 2: he committed the crime, Swindler allegedly replied, God, God told

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Speaker 2: me to do it, and upon further inquiry confirmed, yes, ma'am,

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Speaker 2: I had orders from God, I killed my dad. During

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Speaker 2: an interview with detective, Swindler reportedly explained that he stabbed

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Speaker 2: his father in the head and neck to quote put

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Speaker 2: him out of his misery. Earlier that day, police had

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Speaker 2: been called to the same residence due to an argument

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Speaker 2: between the two men, which reportedly began over household chores.

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Speaker 2: A neighbor who had known Joe Swindler for about twenty

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Speaker 2: years described him as a quiet and polite man who

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Speaker 2: maintained his yard but kept to himself. Currently, Macaiah Swindler

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Speaker 2: is being held at the Tri County Regional Jail. He

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Speaker 2: is set to appear in court in May. For the

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