PARK CITY, Utah (NEWSnet/AP) — A Utah judge on Wednesday postponed a hearing to determine if prosecutors have enough evidence to proceed to trial in the case of a woman charged with fatally poisoning her husband.

Judge Richard Mrazik delayed the hearing until June 18-20 after prosecutors said they need three days to present evidence against Kouri Richins.

Richins, 33, is charged with aggravated murder in her husband’s March 2022 fentanyl overdose death at their home in Park City. Prosecutors allege she slipped five times the lethal dose of the opioid into a cocktail and her husband, Eric Richins, drank it.

Prior to her husband’s death, Kouri Richins was having an affair and had wanted to leave him, but was worried she might lose custody of their children and face financial difficulties in a divorce, prosecutors allege. 

In months leading up to her arrest in May 2023, the mother of three self-published a children’s book, “Are You with Me?,” about a father with angel wings watching over his young son after dying. The book could play a role for prosecutors in framing Eric Richins’ death as a calculated killing with a cover-up attempt.

Defense attorney Skye Lazaro has argued that evidence against her client is dubious and circumstantial.

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