Colorado Dentist's Alleged Internet Search History Takes Center Stage As Murder Trial Begins

Jury action kicked disconnected Monday for nan high-stakes proceedings of James Craig, nan hometown dentist accused of poisoning his wife’s macromolecule shakes while secretly carrying connected a sordid matter and plotting a caller life without her.

James Toliver Craig, 47, is charged pinch first-degree execution aft deliberation successful nan March 2023 decease of his wife, Angela Craig, a 43-year-old mother of six. Her origin of decease was wished to beryllium lethal doses of cyanide and tetrahydrozoline.

Defense lawyer Kelly Hyman outlined nan strategical battlegrounds she expects to spot successful nan courtroom arsenic Craig’s execution proceedings unfolds.

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Colorado dentist James Craig, right, is accused of fatally poisoning his woman and nan mother of his six children, Angela Craig. (Facebook)

Craig’s defense, led by Lisa Fine Moses, has already pursued 2 cornerstone motions, a mobility to suppress physics grounds and a mobility to disregard nan charges, that group nan reside for nan weeks of courtroom wrangling ahead.

"Evidence is cardinal to immoderate lawsuit and a cardinal mobility that is revenge successful criminal cases are Motions to Suppress evidence and a Motion to Dismiss nan charges," Hyman explained to Fox News Digital.

A mobility to suppress grounds is simply a petition to exclude grounds that tin beryllium made by a suspect successful a criminal case.

"A suspect does this because nan defense believes that nan grounds successful mobility was obtained illegally aliases constitutionally successful usurpation of a defendant’s rights," she said.

The alleged hunt history provided YouTube searches for "Top 5 Undetectable Poisons That Show No Signs of Foul Play", "how to make poison", and "The Top 10 Deadliest Plants (They Can Kill You)." (Screenshot/Incident Report)

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Central to nan prosecutor’s lawsuit against nan Aurora, Colorado, dentist is Craig’s alleged usage of a activity computer.

A suspected concealed email account was not recovered connected his phone, laptop aliases Angela’s telephone — it was only accessed connected nan session machine successful dental exam room No. 9, authorities said successful tribunal documents, obtained by Fox News Digital.

Investigators opportunity that, successful nan weeks earlier his wife’s hospitalization and death, Craig utilized a dental-office machine to hunt for "undetectable poisons" and really to get them — later purchasing arsenic and cyanide by message — arsenic good arsenic "how galore grams of axenic arsenic will termination a human" and "is arsenic detectable successful an autopsy?"

Alongside these online searches, investigators alleged that Craig made YouTube queries specified arsenic "how to make poison" and "Top 5 Undetectable Poisons That Show No Signs of Foul Play."

"The defense based on that nan searches went ‘beyond nan scope’ of nan hunt warrant," Hyman said. "However, a judge has already denied motions to suppress physics evidence."

"That being said, it is apt defense counsel will proceed to situation nan admissibility of various grounds gathered by nan prosecution, specified arsenic sound messages betwixt Craig and his alleged mistress."

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Beyond those basal motions, Hyman warned that nan conflict complete forensic grounds could beryllium pivotal. 

She said it’s apt nan tribunal will clasp "gatekeeping" hearings, nether Colorado’s type of nan Daubert standard, successful which nan judge decides whether technological evidence, specified arsenic toxicology reports and integer forensics, is reliable capable to fto nan assemblage spot it.

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"Chain-of-custody archiving and laboratory legalization standards present successful Colorado," she said, "will beryllium scrutinized astatine each turn."

James Toliver Craig is pictured successful a mugshot provided by nan Aurora Police Department. (Aurora Police Department)

Hyman besides discussed really pretrial publicity mightiness effect plea negotiations. Prosecutors, she suggested, often harden their stance to debar appearing anemic successful nan tribunal of nationalist sentiment — moreover arsenic defendants leverage nan threat of venue changes aliases assemblage sequestration to unit much favorable terms. 

"In situations for illustration this," she explained, "the existent unit constituent comes erstwhile some sides recognize nan assemblage excavation whitethorn already beryllium tainted by media coverage."

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Hyman said that arsenic assemblage action kicks off, voir dire must excavation deeper and probe prospective jurors connected really they devour news and their individual attitudes toward rule enforcement. 

"You can’t presume personification who says they’re unbiased hasn’t seen a viral header aliases formed an opinion," she said.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Lisa Fine Moses for comment.