Three Juries All Agreed — Lori Vallow Daybell Is Guilty

Apr 08, 01:00 AM

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She's been convicted three times. In two states. By three different juries. She's serving seven life sentences. And Lori Vallow Daybell is still trying to find a way out.

Her Idaho appeal is now fully briefed and sitting before the state Supreme Court. Five constitutional claims. A fifty-nine-page prosecution response. And a reply brief that tries to repackage the same arguments the state already dismantled. The defense says the court took her lawyer, violated her rights while she was incompetent, let in prejudicial evidence, and denied her a speedy trial. The state says her lawyer had an irreconcilable conflict because he also represented her co-conspirator husband — who paid for the attorney — and that she caused most of the delays herself through competency evaluations and a venue change she requested.

Meanwhile, Arizona told its own story. Lori represented herself in two conspiracy trials and lost both. She was convicted of conspiring to kill her ex-husband Charles Vallow and of conspiring to kill Brandon Boudreaux. One jury came back in three hours. The other in thirty minutes. She called no witnesses in either trial. The sentencing judge said her manipulation was unparalleled in his career and told her she'd eventually fade into obscurity.

Every appeal claim follows the same playbook — reframe her own decisions as the system's failure. It's the same logic that turned her children into zombies, her husband into a dark spirit, and murder into a religious mission. The audience changed from a circle of believers to the Idaho Supreme Court. The performance hasn't changed at all. Three juries saw through it. The justices will too.

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