Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
@Niner
Finally see a mention of Chad :
10:58 am, October 5, 2023
:[…]
The trial for Chad Daybell is scheduled to begin April 1 in Ada County. A status conference in his case will be held via Zoom on Tuesday at 2 p.m. EastIdahoNews.com will livestream the hearing.
:[…]
![]()
Lori Vallow Daybell's new attorney files amended notice of appeal, asks for mental health records and more - East Idaho News
BOISE — Lori Vallow Daybell’s new attorney has filed an amended notice of appeal and is asking the Idaho Supreme Court to take a closer look at over a dozen issues in the case. Craig Durham, an appellate attorney based in Boise, is requesting transcripts from 35 court hearings between Daybell’s...www.eastidahonews.com
First time posting, hope posts like these are allowed! Please do let me know if content like this is discouraged.
I sat in for a week of Lori Vallow's trial to do some courtroom sketch art (separate from my friend Lisa, the official courtroom sketch artist hired by the press). Here are some practice courtroom sketches I did from the Zoom virtual hearing yesterday for Chad Daybell's case.
View attachment 452842
I'm excited that a date has been set. Can anyone tell me why the defence would want the trial televised? Surely the defence would be seeking some sort of plea deal, given the same evidence was just used to convict LV?
That has bothered a lot of us. Different topic, certainly, but one I’m interested in discussing. Do you know if that can be done in this thread?snipped for focus
Chad didn't do anything in AZ and isn't being charged with any of that, so I doubt that line of "proof" can be used at all in his trial. (I still am not sure why they were allowed to use any of that with Lori either, frankly, since it wasn't in any of the ID charges, but that's a diff topic).
Such a quinky-dink that he called Tammy about shooting & burying a raccoon. Yeah, explain that and later she conveniently died on his watch.Maybe. Maybe not. LVD's attorneys let virtually all of the evidence, and anything the prosecution chose to say about it, go unchallenged. As a result, they were able to easily weave together a story that looked good to the jury, and that had no other explanation (because the defense didn't give them one to consider). It was neat and easy to follow, because it was the only thing the jury heard.
I suspect this will be a very different trial, with the defense challenging the claims of the prosecution and witnesses, aggressively confronting the witnesses about what they are saying happened, and bringing in experts who will say the state's story has big holes. Lots of confusion, and multiple views to wade through. As I recall, the prosec put their own favored twist on what the Chad-Lori conversations meant, but can they be just as easily painted as plans for chasing lust, rather than murder plans?
Chad didn't do anything in AZ and isn't being charged with any of that, so I doubt that line of "proof" can be used at all in his trial. (I still am not sure why they were allowed to use any of that with Lori either, frankly, since it wasn't in any of the ID charges, but that's a diff topic). I bet there will be a renewed claim that the death of TD was not a murder at all (with an attempt to show that idea was all built on bogus pseudo-science catering to a crime-seeking agenda long afterwards, since the original examiner said it was not murder).
And I expect CD will give the jury someone else to blame, by throwing Lori and/or Alex under the bus as the possible culprits of the kids' death (he doesn't have to prove they were, just has to offer reasonable doubt to the jury of whether he did it), with him having no knowledge that it would happen at all. Remember, she's certifiably crazy, and has arguably left a long trail of bodies in her wake over many years, with Alex her partner in crime, and with those as probably fairly easy-to-prove assertions, it certainly provides Chad someone to point to as who very well might be to blame instead of him.
Whether that will work remains to be seen, but it's potentially a much different circus than the trial we saw in May, and who knows.