BOISE, Idaho — Lori Vallow Daybell has filed an appeal to the court in Idaho, asking them to reverse her conviction in the murder of her two youngest children and the conspiracy to murder her husband's previous wife.
Daybell was found guilty and sentenced to three life sentences in 2023 for the murders of Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow, and for conspiring to murder Tammy Daybell.
In the appeal, Daybell's attorney lists several reasons why she deserves a new trial, including claims that the court violated Daybell's statutory and constitutional rights to a speedy trial.
"Lori Daybell was deprived of her Sixth Amendment right to counsel of her choice when the district court disqualified her retained attorney," the appeal read, in part. "Ms. Daybell was deprived of her right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment when the district court held pretrial hearings that affected her substantial rights in her absence and while she was incompetent."
The appeal also claims that it was wrong of the court to allow prosecutors to "introduce evidence of uncharged bad acts from Arizona into the Idaho criminal trial."
This Idaho update comes as Daybell is currently on trial — yet again in Arizona — accused of conspiring to kill her niece's ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux, in 2019.
