I tend to discount the opinions of Mark Means. And the "swing for the fences" assertions and motions of Archibald, of course, that try to tell us these killers are being mistreated somehow.
Both are far from objective - they are highly paid to invent and publicize whatever helps the Daybells and makes them look good. Their arguments will cherry-pick only what makes those killers look the best, or that might make us think they are somehow in the right, and will ignore "the rest of the story" in hopes we (and the court) will be deceived.
Take the "1169 days" mentioned in the Jan 26, 2023 motion. It was a clever number, because it's eye-popping "fact" that is easy to repeat and cause alarm -- but it's so easy to see that it's a nonsense number. IT'S JUST A LIE, A MADE UP THING.
If you go back 1169 days, what was going on? The police had arrested the Daybells and they were locked up awaiting trial in 6 months??
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. That was all the way back in Nov 2019. At that time, the 2 kids had disappeared, the wife was dead, the Daybells married in late Nov, and no one knew what happened to their kids. They said the kids were with MG, and then took off and went into hiding. In Dec 2019 to Jan 2020, they were holed up in a rented condo in Hawaii, and late in Jan 2020 they were found and being ordered to produce the kids under a court order.
The clock on a speedy trial OBVIOUSLY didn't start with any of that. Archibald knows that, of course. It's just fiction.
It was much much MUCH later -- and over and over the defense itself has created many delays after that, one after the other, where a trial can't be scheduled until this or that is done. And then another delay, cancel that date, find another place in the schedule.
Here's a website with a timeline, and it's easy to see that there's been nothing outrageous in how this case has been done.
Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell case: A timeline of events
This is a wild swing at a miracle, and (in light of the outrageous and clearly fictitious number of days, in a LEGAL motion) mostly a publicity stunt imo.
Of course, they want you and me to be scared these stone-cold killers will be set free to find more "zombies" they can identify and kill when it fits their whims. They want to paint these monsters as being mistreated by the authorities who caught them and locked them up, which prevents them from killing more people.
The court will treat these nonsense motions seriously, because they have to, but not buying any of it. It's not like the court is unaware of what has been going on.