Natalie Morales

This was on Valentine's Day, which was two weeks earlier.

The prosecution painted Corey as a killer who was set on taking her husband's money because she was deeply in debt with her house flipping business.

And they pointed to the evidence that she was also the beneficiary of multiple life insurance policies on her husband and forged a policy as well.

Now, the prosecution said that Eric Richens was considering divorcing his wife when he was killed and that they had argued over this purchase of this multimillion dollar mansion.

that she was trying to flip for her real estate business.

The prosecution also said that Corey was having an affair and her former paramour, Robert Josh, I think he goes by Josh more commonly, Grossman, he actually testified to their relationship and the affair that they had during the trial.

And the prosecution presented evidence that about three months before Eric's death, Corey had even gone so far as to book a Caribbean vacation for herself and for Grossman.

Although it turns out they never ended up going on the trip because they broke up apparently after Eric died.

So the defense said Eric was dependent on drugs to deal with his chronic pain, and he had back issues apparently.

And they maintained that he most likely died from an accidental overdose.

Now, Corey's attorney said that Eric might have actually gotten the fentanyl himself when he had traveled to Mexico just a few weeks before he died.

The defense also implied that he might have taken a marijuana gummy that he didn't know was laced with fentanyl.

And it was really interesting and I think kind of shocking to the jurors.

And you're going to hear from them in just a little bit.

The defense made the decision not to call any witnesses.

And Corey did not testify during the trial.

Why did the defense think that this was the best approach?

Many defense attorneys would advise their clients against testifying on their own behalf because it just opens themselves up to then being cross-examined and harshly generally cross-examined by the prosecution.

And, you know, in fact, I asked Guy Lazaro, who was Corey's original defense attorney, about that.

She made the point that if the defense also had called witnesses,