🐇Richard Kirk Interrogation

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Richard Kirk sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2014 Observatory Park slaying of his wife. Kirk shot his wife, Kristine Kirk, in 2014, as she pleaded on the phone with a Denver 911 operator to send help.
As the man who killed their daughter rose to speak, the family of Kristine Kirk walked out of a Denver courtroom Friday, refusing to hear their son-in-law’s explanation as to why he put a gun to her temple and shot her while the couple’s three sons were in the house.

Afterward, a weary Marti Kohnke, Kristine’s mother, said: “There’s nothing he could say to alleviate our pain.”

Richard Kirk, who continued to blame a marijuana edible for his behavior the night of the April 14, 2014 murder, was sentenced to 30 years in prison. He also will serve five years on parole and will be barred from contacting his three sons, now 15, 14, and 10, until the parole period is finished.

Kirk, 50, pleaded guilty in February to second-degree murder. As part of the plea agreement, Kirk also relinquished custody of his three sons to his wife’s parents, Marti and Wayne Kohnke.

The plea agreement allowed the Kirks’ three sons to avoid being called to testify against their father, said Denver Chief Deputy District Attorney Helen Morgan. A trial also could have been a test for Colorado’s marijuana industry because attorneys were prepared to argue over how much influence THC, the psychoactive ingredient in pot, had on his behavior the night of the murder.

The Kohnkes asked for a 30-year sentence because they want their sons to mature as much as possible before having to decide what kind of relationship they will have with their father. Kirk will receive credit for the time he has spent in jail awaiting his trial, and his sentence likely could be shortened through other sentencing rules.

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During an emotional hearing that lasted more than two hours, Kristine Kirk’s parents and sister, Tammy Heman, described the layers of loss the death had brought on the family. The family also read poems and letters the boys had written their mother since her death, leading to heavy sobs from friends who packed the courtroom.

Kirk shot his wife as she pleaded on the phone with a Denver 911 operator to send help. The phone call lasted 13 minutes as Kristine Kirk told an operator her husband was hallucinating, ranting about the end of the world and asking her to kill him.

Kristine Kirk was killed just seconds before Denver police officers arrived. The oldest two sons ran to the patrol car for help, and the youngest, then 7 years old, was found in a bedroom near where his mother was lying dead from a gunshot wound.

Kirk had bought marijuana-infused candy, and police found a partially eaten “Karma Kandy Orange Ginger” chew in the family’s Observatory Park home.

A toxicology report from one of Kirk’s blood tests the night of the shooting showed he had just 2.3 nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood. The state’s legal limit for stoned driving is 5 nanograms of THC per milliliter.

Kirk’s three sons have a wrongful-death lawsuit pending against the recreational marijuana industry. The lawsuit claimed that the company that made the orange ginger candy and the store that sold it failed to warn Kirk of its potency and possible side effects of hallucinations and other psychotic behaviors.

Before the trial, prosecutors had indicated that financial problems were putting pressure on the Kirks’ marriage. Rosen said Friday they were working through the financial problems as a team and there was no deep animosity in the relationship.

Richard Kirk suffered serious back pain and had fought opioid addiction because of it, Rosen said. He experimented with marijuana in an attempt to ease the pain.

https://www.denverpost.com/2017/04/07/richard-kirk-2014-observatory-park-wife-homicide-sentencing/

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