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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • Depends. They might have broken in without her password. For all we know her pin was “1234”. They might have pulled files directly from the hardware without logging in at all. Or they might have just used her biometrics, which is legal in most jurisdictions.

    That last one is really important to understand. Courts have generally ruled that refusing to give up a password falls under the fifth amendment right against self incrimination, because it’s considered a form of speech. But biometric data is not speech, and can be obtained via a warrant. So if the cops are allowed to press your fingertip to an ink pad and then a piece of paper, they can also press your fingertip to the sensor on your phone. By the same token they can point the phone camera at your face, just like they can point a camera at you when they book you. It’s all just biometrics, which aren’t protected in the same way. (Yes, its a little more complicated than that, legally speaking, but that’s basically how it’s been argued in court, and many courts have agreed).

    And once either of those actions happens to coincidentally unlock your phone, they have free reign to search the contents and even remove your passwords entirely for their future convenience. That all falls under the standard search and seizure provisions.




  • Yeah. In the letter she tells her mother to have this planned conversation with brother (to fill him in on his part of the cover-up) somewhere away from home because she’s worried about her mother’s house and phone being bugged. But she didn’t think “Hey, maybe I shouldn’t leave this highly incriminating document in my jail cell.” She is not a smart person, at all.

    The wildest part about this case is that she really ought to have gotten away with it. The police absolutely botched the case. Kouri wasn’t even charged until something like a year or two after the murder. The initial investigation failed to gather any meaningful evidence, basically just completely shit the bed on everything, overlooked a whole bunch of red flags, and she was free and clear until Eric’s family hired a PI to look into it and get charges pressed.

    The only reason she got convicted is that she’s spectacularly stupid and left a trail of evidence a mile wide, so that even a year or so after the fact it will still possible to easily show that she did it.



  • This case is insane. They didn’t actually charge her until something like a year after the murder because the cops so badly fucked the initial investigation, but the prosecution still got a conviction with barely minutes worth of jury deliberation, because of what a fucking terrible job she did of covering it up.

    The 911 call alone is a horror show. The defense tried to use it to show how sad and scared she was, and then the prosecution proceeded to play the entire call, with a stopwatch running from the time she agrees to start CPR - not when she is first asked to by the dispatcher, but when she actually finally relents and agrees to try - to the first actual compression. Six god damn minutes. She is something like ten minutes into the 911 call at this point. During that time she repeatedly informed the dispatcher that she wasn’t in the room when it happened. Zero interest in saving her husband’s life, only in establishing her alibi.

    Oh, and she claims that her phone was in the room with her husband while she was away (in her kids room) but the records on the phone show that it was unlocked several times over fifteen minutes before she dialled 911. After finding her husband unconscious this woman managed to waste almost half an hour before starting CPR.

    She had multiple searches on her phone for things like “How much fentanyl is lethal”, “Can deleted texts be recovered from an iPhone”, “How to remotely wipe an iPhone”, and “Luxury women’s prisons”, which reads like an avant-garde short story about someone doing a crime. She met up with a convicted drug dealer multiple times despite having no prior history of drug use. She wrote a letter to her mother detailing an extensive scheme of witness tampering that she was to rope Kouri’s brother into, with notes on all of the exact lies he should tell. She changed two different life insurance policies on her husband to have her as the only beneficiary just weeks before he died.


  • For anyone who needs context, because on its face this is a confusing document, the actual letter was intended to be delivered to her mother. It conscripts said mother into a detailed scheme of witness tampering heavily involving her brother. Kouri concocts a fake history of drug use for her dead husband with numerous details designed to create reasonable doubt and open up the idea that her husband was a habitual fentanyl user, while explaining away the fact that no drugs were found in their home. She also implores her mother to send photos of her nieces to the press as an implicit threat against one of Eric’s sisters (Eric’s family were pretty firmly in the “She killed him” camp at this point). The large “Walk the dog!” heading, along with other notes throughout, is understood to be an instruction to get out of the house before reading the letter and then to dispose of it somewhere safely.


  • That would almost be as bad as writing a six page letter detailing all of your attempted witness tampering and accidentally having it found in your jail cell.

    Which is a thing she did.

    It could only be worse if that letter included instructions to make threats against someone’s children.

    Oh. It did.

    Look up the “Walk the dog” letter. It is one of the most unbelievably damning pieces of evidence you will ever see. The prosecution literally built their entire closing argument around it because it’s so bad that they can just discard the rest of their case and still win on that alone.



  • So, obviously he’s lying, either about the address of the earlier strikes or about the intention to keep hitting the island.

    But just consider how fucking bad this lie is. Like, if we actually take him at his word, what he’s saying is that he will literally put pilots in harm’s way, and kill and maim Iranians, as well as wasting a lot of money, just for his entertainment. That’s your commander in chief, America, proudly declaring that he would happily sacrifice human lives just for “fun”.

    Honestly, assuming that he’s lying is actually being kind to him at this point.