I’ve been meaning to share this for awhile, as I’ve been interested in the thoughts of other great minds here. It contains names of another attorney, and hopefully that’s okay considering the connection to direct players in this case.
Robert Wood, the prosecutor for this case, has worked for the State since 2014. Mr. Wood served in the Army in '05 and graduated from law school in 2009. After graduation he worked for the Rigby, Andrus, & Rigby firm in Rexburg. This firm handles multiple areas of law, one of them being criminal defense. One of their main criminal defense attorneys in Sean Bartholick. Mr. Wood worked for their firm, and worked under Mr. Bartholick, starting as a paralegal and eventually he moved up to being an associate attorney with their firm. Rob Wood left their firm in 2014 when he began working as the deputy prosecutor for Madison County. In Jan 2020 Wood took over as prosecuting attorney for the County. What I find most interesting about these connections is that Mr. Wood worked on criminal defense cases with Bartholick.....who happened to be one of the first attorneys Lori & Chad retained. Bartholick was the same attorney who released the statement that Chad was a very loving husband who has the support of his children & that Lori is a devoted mother as well. I know Bartholick no longer represents Chad or Lori....but I did find it interesting how closely connected some of these people appear to be. Wood working multiple years in criminal defense, under the same attorney who Chad & Lori had early on in this case.
CliffNotes version:
-Rob Wood used to work for law firm Rigby, Andrus & Rigby. One of their multiple practice areas is criminal defense.
-One of the defense attorneys @ their firm is an attorney, Sean Bartholick
-Rob Wood worked alongside Sean Bartholick at this Rigby firm
-Rob Wood left their firm in 2014, when he began to work for the County
-Jan 2020 is when Rob Wood became the County prosecutor -Bartholick was the same attorney who Chad & Lori hired early on, one who released the statement that Chad was a loving husband and had support of his children & that Lori was a devoted mother.
If anything, IMHO this is interesting to say the least....