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Two trials dominating the news. Two very different theories of murder. One former felony prosecutor explaining what conviction requires in each.

Kouri Richins goes to trial February 23rd for the alleged fentanyl poisoning of her husband Eric. The defense scored pretrial wins—a recanting drug source, excluded experts, severed financial charges. But prosecutors have an alleged Valentine's Day 2022 poisoning attempt, a housekeeper who says Kouri asked for fentanyl and later requested "the Michael Jackson stuff," Google searches about lethal doses and luxury prisons, a jail letter allegedly coaching family testimony, and five times the lethal dose in Eric's system.

Colin Gray faces 29 felony counts in Georgia including second-degree murder. Prosecutors allege he armed his 14-year-old son despite years of documented warnings: an alleged 2021 search for "how to kill your dad," an FBI visit over school shooting threats in 2023, a Christmas gift of the AR-15, a text allegedly saying "the blood is on your hands," and what prosecutors describe as a bedroom shrine to the Parkland shooter. Colin allegedly told arriving officers: "I knew it."

Eric Faddis walks through both cases today. For Richins: How does a recanting witness affect the prosecution's case? What does the remaining evidence prove? For Gray: How does Georgia law support charging a parent with murder for a child's actions? What's the evidentiary threshold?

Different crimes—alleged poisoning versus alleged negligent enabling. But the same question at the center: What does criminal accountability look like? When does knowing become culpable?

Eric Faddis gives his honest assessment of where each trial is headed.

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