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I'm not a lawyer, and this is just my opinion, but I fear that this decision to try them together will result in any conviction being overturned on appeal and new, separate trials being ordered.
I recall cases in the past overturned for this very reason, but then I could not find any specific cases to cite! So maybe I am wrong. But I feel it would have been safer to have two separate trials as requested by the defendants.
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I recall cases in the past overturned for this very reason, but then I could not find any specific cases to cite! So maybe I am wrong. But I feel it would have been safer to have two separate trials as requested by the defendants.

Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell will be tried together in January, judge rules - East Idaho News
ST. ANTHONY — The murder trial for Lori Vallow Daybell will now be held with Chad Daybell’s after a judge issued a decision Thursday delaying the start date until early next year. In a 12-page ruling, Judge Steven Boyce granted the prosecution’s request to continue Lori’s jury trial from Oct...
