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Idaho ‘Cult Mom’ Lori Vallow wants case dismissed over ‘speedy trial’ concerns after 1,169 days in jail
‘Doomsday Couple’ Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell again in courtroom
FOX 10 Investigative Reporter Justin Lum has extra.
Lori Vallow requested Idaho Choose Steven Boyce in a Thursday movement to dismiss her case after she has spent 1,169 days in jail for her alleged function within the murders of her two kids, in addition to her husband’s ex-wife, Tammy Daybell.
Vallow’s protection crew is arguing that the courtroom has violated her proper to a speedy trial. Her joint homicide trial with husband Chad Daybell was initially set for 2021 however has been delayed on account of her competency examinations and the coronavirus pandemic, amongst different components.
“The primary trial setting on this immediate case was for October 11, 2022, since that was inside six months of April 19, 2022. The federal government then requested for extra time and the Court docket granted the request and set trial for January 9, 2023. This violated her proper to a speedy trial,” the motion states.
Thursday’s movement to dismiss features a timeline of occasions in Vallow’s case, together with her preliminary arrest in Hawaii in February 2020, when she was held on $5 million bond; her indictment in Might 2021; her arraignment in April 2022; her first trial setting on the indictment in October 2022; her second trial setting on the indictment in January 2023; and her third trial setting on the indictment, which is scheduled for April of this yr, totaling 1,169 days in jail.
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Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow, who’re co-defendants accused of murdering Vallow’s two kids and Daybell’s first spouse, had been again in courtroom on Jan. 19 for an fascinating movement that was heard by a choose.
Vallow’s protection argues within the movement that her “constitutional rights, together with her proper to be presumed harmless and her proper to a speedy trial, have been ignored by the federal government.”
In the meantime, Daybell has waived his rights to a speedy trial and has requested the state to delay the trial set for April in Fremont County.
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The courtroom will maintain a listening to to debate Vallow’s movement to dismiss and different motions on Feb. 9.
Chad Daybell (left) and Lori Vallow (proper)
Vallow and Daybell are charged with murdering Vallow’s two kids, seven-year-old Joshua “J.J.” Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan, round September 2019, when the kids disappeared.
The couple, who married in November 2019, allegedly collected J.J.’s and Tylee’s Social Safety advantages between Oct. 1, 2019, and Jan. 22, 2020, after their murders.
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The kids had been lacking for a number of months — when police say the couple lied in regards to the kids’s whereabouts after which slipped away to Hawaii — earlier than their our bodies had been discovered buried on Chad Daybell’s property in rural Idaho.
Lori and Chad Daybell are accused of killing 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old J.J. Vallow in 2019. (Rexberg Police Division)
The couple had been indicted in late Might 2021 on a number of counts every of conspiracy to commit first-degree homicide and grand theft by deception, first-degree homicide and conspiracy to commit first-degree homicide associated to the deaths of Tylee, J.J. and Chad Daybell’s ex-wife, officers introduced on the time. Arizona officers in June 2021 additionally indicted Vallow within the July 2019 homicide of her ex-husband, Charles Vallow.
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The case has garnered nationwide consideration and impressed varied crime tv episodes and documentaries. Netflix most lately launched the documentary sequence “Sins of our Mom” about Vallow and her life earlier than the alleged crimes on Sept. 14.
Daybell has written a number of apocalyptic novels primarily based loosely on Mormon theology. Each had been concerned in a gaggle that promotes preparedness for the biblical finish instances. Vallow and Daybell bonded over their non secular beliefs after initially assembly in 2018, after they appeared collectively for the primary time on a podcast discussing theories in regards to the finish of the world.
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