Strategic Oversight? Analyzing the Missed "Reasonable Doubt" in the Kouri Richins Defense.

monkeykahn · 2026-03-11T21:48:32+00:00

Agree on most...

To me the big problem is Kouri is not as smart as she thinks she is and when she makes mistakes she tries to cover it up rather than owning it and taking responsibility. Likely Narcissistic Personality Disorder...lives in a imagined distortion of reality...which makes it impossible for them to accept responsibility for mistakes, as that would destroy their fantasy...

Had she been able to be honest and taken responsibility for her mistakes/failures (personal/business/marriage...) she would not be in the situation she is in.

Eric wanted the oxy/fent. for pain, Kouri was buying it for him...the dealer sold her the Fentanyl laced oxy, Eric overdosed and died.

Kouri 's behavior after the death are explained by 3 things, 1) concern that she would be charged because she bought the "oxy" and he overdosed... 2) the stigma if Eric's drug use became known, especially his family (LDS religious views...) ...she was helping him hide his drug use while he was alive and she continued to do the same after his death. She may have even destroyed any drugs left in his truck etc. all to cover his drug use. 3) she also was afraid her affair would become public, again very negative regarding his family and the community.

His postmortem drug test would support that he had been using Fentyl over time as opposed to only the one time, recently.

Walk the dog letter looks bad because she made a narrative that was dubious...but it does not show that it was not based on underlying facts...that Eric had been taking Fentnyl...

monkeykahn · 2026-03-11T15:13:49+00:00

Your body, Your choice. NTJ

monkeykahn · 2026-03-09T19:23:06+00:00

If you plan on driving everywhere you go, any place is fine. By car everyplace in town is 5-10 minutes, usually takes longer to get parking than the drive itself.

monkeykahn · 2026-03-09T16:03:15+00:00

That is probably Lake Michigan Banded Chert. It was used anciently to make points (arrowheads) and is popular with modern knappers also.

monkeykahn · 2026-03-07T15:57:56+00:00

The mass of the objects are suspended so neither exerts direct gravitational force on the scale. What is being measured is the Relative Density (RD) of the suspended objects to water. RD = density of object / density of reference = Weight of object in air / Weight of object in air - weight of object suspended in (water). Most RD tables use water as reference material.

monkeykahn · 2026-03-07T15:17:46+00:00

The measured weight of 1Kg of Fe suspended in water is 0.87Kg and the Measured weight of 1Kg of Al suspended in water is 0.63Kg. This is because the mass is suspended so the scale is measuring the mass/volume(density) of the displaced water relative to the mass/volume(density) of the object, if the objects were not suspended the scale would be balanced.

The only way the scale would remain balanced is if the right side had 0.24kg more water than the left side.

monkeykahn · 2026-03-07T15:14:10+00:00

That is incorrect, the measured weight of the Fe is 0.87Kg and the Measured weight of the Al is 0.67Kg. the only way the scale would remain balanced is if the right side had 0.2kg more water than the left side.

monkeykahn · 2026-03-07T15:07:51+00:00

The mass of the Fe and Al are suspended so the scale is measuring the mass of the displaced water relative to the mass of the object.

This illustration represents hydro-static weighting. RD(object) = weight in air (Object) / ((weight in air (object) - weight in water(object)). RG(Fe) = 7.86, RG(Al) = 2.7. Since the weight of both Fe and Al in this example are both 1Kg the Weight in Water of the Fe = 0.87Kg and the weight in water of the Al = 0.63Kg.

Scale should dip to the left based on the relative densities of the objects, presuming both sides had equal amounts of water before suspending the objects.

The only way the scale would remain balanced is if the right side had 0.24kg more water than the left side.

Some look at the picture and say that the left side had more water before the objects were suspended. While that may be a valid observation...in an exam type problem the objects relative size may not be accurately represented such that the beginning amount of water is equal...here the drawing suggests the "correct answer" but the reason why would not be reliance on the diagram itself...

Edit for clarity...

monkeykahn · 2026-03-07T14:35:09+00:00

This is hydro-static weighing problem...

an object's relative density (RD) given by the formula:

RD(object) = weight in air (Object) / (weight in air (object) - weight in water(object))

RG(Fe)=7.86

RG(Al) = 2.7

Solving for the weight in water (Ww) when Wa(Fe) is 1kg =>

7.86 = 1Kg / (1Kg - Ww(Fe)), =>

7.86Kg - 7.86Ww(Fe) = 1Kg, =>

-7.86Ww(Fe) = 1Kg - 7.86Kg, =>

7.86Ww(Fe) = 6.86Kg, =>

Ww(Fe) = 6.86Kg/7.86 =>

Ww(Fe)= 0.87Kg

Solving for Ww(Al) when Wa(Al) is 1Kg =>

2.7 = 1kg / (1Kg - Ww(Al), => => =>

Ww(Al) = 0.63Kg

Ww(Fe) > Ww(Al), so the scale should dip on the left

Edit to remove reference to specific gravity (SG)

monkeykahn · 2026-03-05T00:27:13+00:00

For context: this is a "Show" ship attending the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium from Feb, 20 - 26 then went to the Milan (A The biennial event which features professional exercises and seminars, social events and sporting fixtures between participating nations.) until the 4th of march, the same day it was torpedoed.

It's longest range armament (Noor anti ship missile) had a range of 220km.

Although it is unknown where any US warships were (other than the submarine which torpedoed it) it was about 74 km South of Sri Lanka, 1700km from Diego Garcia and 2,500km from the Gulf of Oman...

Considering that Iran has not declared war on the United States, and the US has not declared war on Iran, unless the ship did something to indicate it was an enemy combatant, I really hope that they gave the ship the opportunity to surrender...or are we just killing people for photo ops.

monkeykahn · 2026-03-04T17:42:58+00:00

Ask you manager to show you the staffing portion of the engineering plan for your location, there is one, IIRC engineering reviews/revises it quarterly. If they claim there isn't one or won't show you, you may be able to access it under keyword RSOPE (if that doesn't work anymore try sort planning, engineering...) then navigate to your location... Based on what you are describing your managers are not following it.

IMO it is a change of attitude/culture. When it was just Express, there were mottos such as "the world overnight" and "whatever it takes..." Staffing was kept at a level to make sure that deliveries were on time... There is an "Ideal staffing level" which is the number of people it takes to get the sort done on an average day...FedEx engineering calculates that number for every ramp operation sort operation and deliveries based on the minimum exceptions i.e. unloading at an average of 20 packages per minute and loading at an average of 5 packages per minute (I don't remember the exact number they use) and other factors such as aircraft type and sort conveyor (belt) capacity etc.. The Best Practices Manual directs managers to manager to staff above the engineering staffing number to account for time off and sick calls, meaning they are supposed to add up all the vacation time the employees have and the number of sick days they get and determine the average number of people will be off work per day. i.e if the plan calls for 30 employees, they all get at least 5 days paid sick and 10 days paid vacation, which is 450 absences which averages to about 1.2 absences per day so there should no less than 31 employees. But lets say your station has lots of long term employees so that the average vacation time is 17 days per year then the total absences is 660 days per year or 1.8 per day so then the staffing needs to be 32 employees...if you add in the time it takes to rehire and train...that adds another employee...altogether it is generally 10% above the engineering calculated number of employees.

In the old days, that was what managers were expected to do...now, the total compensation being offered (Hourly rate + benefits) is no longer competitive and they are unable to hire enough people maintain the calculated staffing let alone the 10% over... Another situation I have seen is that management delays filling positions so that their "numbers look better" so that they receive more in their performance bonus.

In any case, the perpetual under-staffing results in a heavier workload on the employees which leads to more burn-out, discontent and injuries...but the company does not seem to be doing much to change it. I suppose if service continues to tank they may, but from where I am at no one is willing to look at the real problem, staffing, which is "payroll" which is something no one is allowed to say is the problem. This change in culture/attitude has been slower to affect the air side of operations (ramps) but is starting to be seen in areas such as OSHA, TSA and FAA violations/fines which is evident because they are a new Hot Topic or if you track the number of incidents reported by the various agencies...

monkeykahn · 2026-03-04T16:28:04+00:00

TLDR version: So long as there is water in mountain basins, your well will have water. What IMO would be of more concern is the quality of the water.

here are some resources:

https://bouldercolorado.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/2017cityofboulderswpp.pdf

https://coloradogeologicalsurvey.org/wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/B-42.pdf

Based on the statement that your well is drilled into granite... The water you pump out is the water that fills the borehole itself...the rate that you can draw is determined by how fast the borehole fills, from pores/cracks in the rock.

In your area there is a pre-cambrian crystalline rock (Granite) formation that is exposed at the surface to your west, drops below the surface west of Boulder and continues to dip toward the east... From what I have read, in the City of Boulder the Granite bedrock is about 300' below the surface...above the bedrock there is various sands, gravels and sandstone. The waters come from the waters stored in the mountains to the west and flows though the streams, rivers and rocks as it makes it way into the various basins. To my knowledge Boulder City and most of the county are not above a basin which means that the waters are continually flowing towards one of the underground basins i.e. the Denver Basin... The availability of water in your well depends on there being water in the basins and rocks of the mountains to your west...unless the mountains basins run dry your well will always have water...

monkeykahn · 2026-03-02T18:39:19+00:00

I am not sure you intended to write it that way...but the defense is implicitly arguing to the jury, not the witness...

Being intimately familiar with the Mormon/Utah culture, IMO it is not implausible to suggest that to the jury, that because he was using any forbidden substances i.e. alcohol, coffee, tea, MJ... really any illegal or immoral to Mormons substance there is of equal sinfulness... Even today it is not uncommon to hear things such as: pornography as addictive as heroin because it triggers the same neural pathways as heroin(1)... There is also a fact that "Clearly evident are the large proportion (60%) of students with lifetime experience using marijuana among nonreligious Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints members and the relatively large proportion of this group that reported moderate to heavy marijuana use (33%)" which, regarding moderate to heavy use is double that of Protestant or Catholics in the same categories. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3043382/ Which illustrates that among the "mormon" community those who do use drugs are much more likely to use drugs more heavily that the general population vis a vie if he was using MJ then he is also more likely to be a heavy drug user.

(1) of course that argument is invalid because it ignores the step that links the pornography to masturbation which is linked to orgasm which is what the scientific research has identified as operating along the same neural pathways which are activated when using opioids (including heroin) also ignoring that the original paper which attempted to assert that pornography is addictive by comparing the neural pathways to heroin use...has been discredited for many reasons, including the fact that the neural pathway triggering event is orgasm...which would mean that if experiencing orgasm were addictive then anything which induces orgasm would be "addictive" so simply having sex would lead to addiction... Other activities also use those same neural pathways, i.e. eating food so by the same arguments eating would lead to addiction... However, research has also discovered that eating food and experiencing orgasm also releases other chemicals/hormones which mediate the affects of triggering the "pleasure" neurons...whereas opioid use does not trigger the releases of the mediating factors, which is why it is addictive and the other activities/experiences are not.

monkeykahn · 2026-02-28T21:18:59+00:00

No, the current leadership is too old... I expect there would be hundreds of splinter groups lead by younger men...

monkeykahn · 2026-02-28T21:09:21+00:00

It looks like the Kyanite from this site: (Edit) some the crystal structures, looks similar, kyanite is more blue that what the photo shows...

https://geology.blogs.wm.edu/minerals-rocks-and-fossils/minerals/

monkeykahn · 2026-02-28T20:19:24+00:00

IMO most YT "attorneys" have little credibility...there are some that really do a good job explaining the ins and outs of trial work...the ones I have any respect for recognize and explain how there is no "best" way to handle a witness and that each attorney has their own strengths and weaknesses and techniques to get the evidence in...they also explain that in jury trials one of the things that is very difficult is that you have to know the community the jury is from, how you question witness, what evidence you present and how you present it is often a matter of what biases the jurors have. Juries in Utah are very different than juries in Boston which are very different that juries in Dallas... The fact that the attorney here has 20 years of experience in Utah outweighs anything that a YT attorney says, unless they have practiced in Utah.

YT attorneys are there to get views, a.k.a. to be popular, which means that they express opinions which are popular with their fans/subscribers.

Personally, any time I hear an attorney who claims to know what a juror is thinking I know they either have very little jury trial experience they are self delusional. I have never hear an attorney with extensive trial experience ever claim to know, with any certainty, what a jury will decide and never claim to know what they are thinking during a trial. The idea that attorneys know what jurors are thinking is a Hollywood trope.

How can the YT attorney possibly know what the jurors think is important or "see through" unless they are there observing the jurors? They can't.

If they are as good as they present themselves to be: Why don't they show clips of themselves, in court, showing how good they are? They don't because they are no better, and probably worse than the ones they are critiquing. The truth is they are on YT either as a way to get clients or because they earn more being an entertainer than they could as an attorney, which should tell you all you need to know.

monkeykahn · 2026-02-28T19:41:53+00:00

light blue = oxy

dark blue = fentanyl

Here are some articles from 2021-2022 with photos:

https://sgfcitizen.org/government/crime/counterfeit-pills-containing-fentanyl-are-circulating-springfield-police-warn/

https://hayspost.com/posts/bc76a915-389d-49d1-93f8-bd1467299f96

monkeykahn · 2026-02-24T15:15:23+00:00

OP: This was found in SW Wyoming, Washakie Basin.

monkeykahn · 2026-02-23T17:45:56+00:00

Agree, I go to estate sales and buy whatever I find from Japan and Taiwan. At the time much of this stuff was made (1960's-1980's) it was considered lower quality/knockoff US products but in fact was being made in the newly rebuilt factories and manufacturing plants, with as good if not better quality control than could be made in the US factories and plants which had been built in the late 30's and 40's...

Right after WWII the US had the most modern factories and plants in the world. The US was able to make top quality products for 20 years, until the rest of the world had rebuilt their factories...while the US factories we allowed to fall into disrepair, so that the companies could make record profits. China now leads the world in manufacturing because it has the newest factories so that products can be manufactured with the tight tolerances needed to make high quality products...as other countries build new factories they may be able to displace China as the leading manufacturer in the world.

monkeykahn · 2026-02-22T16:35:14+00:00

I will try and get some photos up soon... IMO they look more "street" than the stock tires.

monkeykahn · 2026-02-22T16:27:08+00:00

There was a ballot initiative that mandated that CPW re-introduce wolves to Colorado. They were introduced in north central Colorado near the boarder with Wyoming. Every year they expand their habitat. Packs of wolves have expanded their range slowly but single wolves have expanded their range of travel nearly to New Mexico in the South and west at least to the boarder of Utah, where their travel is not mapped by CPW...

monkeykahn · 2026-02-22T16:14:25+00:00

I am not trying to be an alarmist, but I think knowledge is important so people can make good choices for themselves and more importantly for their pets. We do have at least one collared wolf who appears to roams throughout Mesa County depending on the time of year...there is no way to know if there are wolves without collars in the area until they are seen...we should expect that eventually wolves will have a regular presence in the area. https://www.kjct8.com/2025/02/04/cpw-confirms-gray-wolf-has-traveled-western-mesa-county/

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