Brian Buckmeyer

You can tell whether or not the fentanyl that is in someone's system is the illegal type of fentanyl or the medicinal type of fentanyl.

And when they realize it's the illegal type, that's when they start to look at this case as a criminal case.

The only thing that can make sense to me is that she is still thinking as a mother in the sense of, okay, let's assume that she knows that she's guilty, right?

Even as she's writing this book, but she's still thinking like a mother.

How do I protect my children?

I might've done something horrible, but I still want to protect them from something.

That's the only thing that makes sense to me because doing this as a way to try to push any suspicions off of you, that doesn't make any sense to me because it's also not a successful tactic.

I think the biggest point in this case is when Carmen Lauber is arrested and that is the housekeeper of the family who ultimately does testify at court that Corey was the one who approached her not once but twice to get illegal drugs.

They investigate her and I think it was March of 2023 when she's arrested and in about mid-May of 2023, she's released on a GPS ankle monitor and that's very coincidental because also in May of 2023,

Corey Richens is arrested.

And so it's the idea of, and the defense tried to raise this as a reasonable doubt too, that the only reason why we're here is because you arrested the housekeeper, you forced her to flip by telling a lie, and you took that, and I'm using air quotes, a lie to then prosecute Corey Richens, that it came from the arrest of the housekeeper.

Yeah, so the defense here, there were two defense attorneys, actually.

First, she had a private counsel, and then she was given public defenders.

Their main thing was embedded within the idea of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, right?

That there was reasonable doubt as to how the fentanyl, one,

got into Corey Richens' hands, and then two, got into Eric Richens' system.

And there was no direct evidence that could show that either she was given those drugs by one of the drug dealers or one of the people who testified against her, or two, that Eric Richens consumed that drug because of her.

And so they said, because you're missing that very crucial link,

Everything else is circumstantial.

Everything else has some sort of level of reasonable doubt and you have to acquit her.