Lori Vallow Daybell’s new public defender filed an amended notice of appeal on Wednesday, listing 16 questions he wants answered.
The questions are identical to the ones filed by Vallow Daybell’s former attorney on August 31, but that notice was suspended a week later when the case was reassigned by the Office of the State Appellate Public Defender.
New attorney Craig Durham requested an extension to file the notice of appeal, which was granted on September 21.
Among the issues listed are questions surrounding decisions about Vallow Daybell’s competency, whether her right to a speedy trial were violated by the court’s decisions, several questions regarding the technical details of the conspiracy charges and alleged conspirators, and whether the sentencing court properly reviewed evidence and if it abused its discretion in handing down the three life sentences without parole.
10042023 Amended Notice of Appeal by kc wildmoon on Scribd
Durham is more specific about requests for court transcripts in his notice than Jim Archibald was in the earlier notice.
Vallow Daybell and her husband, Chad Daybell, were charged in the deaths of 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old JJ Vallow — two of Vallow Daybell’s children — after a months-long search for the children that ended when they were found dead and buried on Daybell’s property, as CrimeOnline has reported
During the search, the Daybells at first said the children were with relatives and then fled to Hawaii before Vallow Daybell was arrested and brought back to Idaho. Daybell was arrested when the children’s bodies were found.
The couple were also charged in the death of Daybell’s first wife, Tammy Daybell, and Vallow Daybell faces a conspiracy to murder charge in Arizona for the death of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow.
Vallow Daybell was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Daybell, her fifth husband, has yet to face trial.
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[Featured image: Lori Vallow Daybell/Idaho Department of Corrections]
