
The legal saga of Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell, embroiled in a series of horrific cases involving murder and conspiracy, saw recent developments challenging the proceedings of their respective trials. Lori Vallow Daybell, the mother convicted for the murder of her two children in Idaho, has pushed to get her Arizona case dismissed. She claimed her constitutional right to a speedy trial has been violated. According to FOX 10 Phoenix, Daybell filed a motion stating "The State of Arizona has had plenty of time to figure this out!" as she took issue with the court's failure to set a trial date for the attempted murder of her ex-nephew-in-law, Brandon Boudreaux.
On a separate yet parallel track, Chad Daybell, Lori's husband, is facing his trial complications. A judge ruled that a typo in the indictment — a wrong date of death for one of the children, JJ Vallow — will not derail the murder charge against him. Special Assistant Attorney General Ingrid Batey described the misstep to the judge as "clearly a clerical error," and 7th District Judge Steven Boyce deemed the typo an "inadvertent mistake," authorizing jurors to be specially instructed to still consider the full scope of the case, as detailed by AZFamily.
The charges against Lori Vallow Daybell in Arizona revolve around conspiracy to commit the murder of Charles Vallow, her former husband, and the attempted murder of Boudreaux. Lori chose to represent herself after being declared fit to stand trial, as per FOX 10 Phoenix. Her self-representation comes on the heels of a life sentence handed down in Idaho about the deaths of her children, JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan, and the death of Tammy Daybell, Chad's former wife. The trial for Charles Vallow's murder is set to begin on March 31, with no date yet in sight for the Boudreaux case despite her pleas for the expedition.