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Up next, Witness #2 today, Detective Woody. Prosecutor Bloodworth is doing direct
On the morning of April 13th, after learning a traffic stop was made, she headed over there. When she got there, Kouri was in the front passenger seat of Detective Maynards car. Det. Woody did an audio recording of the encounter.
She testifies Kouri was not in handcuffs and was not placed under arrest. She did not observe any tears, but Kouri sounded like she was crying.
She asked Kouri if she wanted to come with her and grab her cellphone. Kouri reached in and grabbed the phone before handing it to Detective Woody.
She asked Kouri if she wanted to take it out of the case or not. This is something she usually asks incase there are cards, drivers licenses, etc within the case. Kouri did not want to remove the case and handed her phone over.
After the audio recording and traffic stop, she went to Beckys house. Becky was an employee of Erics and there were electronics they were interested in recovering. The house was within walking distance.
After, she went back to the Richins home. Kouri was there and was asking her questions about the warrant, what they were looking for, and what they found.
Atty Kathy Nester doing cross.
Detective Woody confirms she was the one who went to the judge for the search warrant.
2 warrants were obtained. 1 authorized a search for fentanyl or any tracking or mailing. The other was for electronics.
In the middle of the initial search warrant being enforced, Is when she went to the judge and asked for a search warrant for vehicle. Det. Woody confirms that at the time she got Kouri's phone she did not have a warrant to search the vehicle. But she says Kouri got the phone
She told Kouri the purpose of the search was to make sure there is nothing there and nothing dangerous for her and the kids. She was referring to fentanyl.
Detective Woody confirms she did not read Miranda Rights to Kouri while she was detained during the traffic stop. She knew Kouri had a lawyer because she had talked to Kouri about interviewing before. But she did not tell Kouri that day she had a right to call her lawyer.
Back to talking about the phone: When she arrived at the Richins, she got the phone back at some point and put it into evidence. While at the house, she asked Kouri if she would provide the code or open the safes so they wouldn't have to damage them.
Kouri was asking Detective Woody questions about if they had found any fentanyl.
Atty Nester is going after credibility by asking Det. Woody if she knew the Richins before this happened. She said she did not.
Atty Nester is saying that they plan to challenge the sixth amendment rights later today based on O'Driscolls interview of Kouri when her attorney said not to question her. Prosecution argues there was no judicial case happening at that point, so 6th amendment is not relevant
Atty Nester clarifies with Detective Woody that she is just a Deputy at this point. We will begin referring to her as Deputy Woody from this point.
There is written correspondence of Kouri's attorney to Deputy Woody saying that Kouri should not be questioned outside the presence of an attorney anymore. Generally correspondence like that goes into a case file. She believes she put that into the case file.
Deputy Woody left the case to train her K9 dog, because she needed more time.
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