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Lori Vallow Daybell, the Idaho mother with doomsday religious beliefs who was convicted of killing her two youngest children and conspiring to murder a romantic rival, is on trial again. This time, she's accused in Arizona of conspiring to murder her estranged husband.
The case has drawn public attention in part because Vallow Daybell, 51, has doomsday-focused religious beliefs. She isn't a lawyer but has chosen to represent herself in the six-week trial. Opening statements are scheduled Monday in a Phoenix courtroom.
 
oh i don't know if it will be quick :( ... i can almost see her cross examining a witness... "i talked to Jesus and he told me that you would be here lieing about me , he told me that the devil would be working with you to persecute His CHOSEN, and isn't it exactly what you are now doing here, bearing false witness against His Chosen, answer the question , answer the question" and on and on until she is found quilty but then will ask for a new trial because her lawyer wouldn't let her talk when she took the witness stand and that her lawyer wasn't prepared and didn't do a good job defending her...
 
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Right at this moment right now, she's not going to testify and not even going to put on a defense, she tried to rest right after the prosecution did but the judge told her that if she rested now, she couldn't change her mind on Monday, so she decided to wait until Monday to say definitely, but she ain't got no case and she knows it.

She actually did a fair job considering she hasn't a clue what she's doing. I figured she'd be preaching and proselytizing, but she kept it for the most part under control.

A woman who went on one date with Charles, (Lori called him my husband) Lori asked her did she go out with married men a lot, Lori got some balls on her considering she had been cheating for over a year at the time of the murder. The date was the night before he was killed and Lori wanted to know if she saw him again after that date, woman said, well, no, cause he was dead. Lori walked right into that one because she obviously didn't know when the date was.

It was cringey, but as it looks right now, it's gonna be quick. Jurors shouldn't be out too long, maybe an hour and that's just to eat lunch.
 
3:56 p.m. Judge asks jury to wait for him in the jury room as he wants to thank them personally. They are now dismissed.


3:55 p.m. Judge thanks the jurors and says they are released. The admonition is listed – they can talk with anyone about any aspect of this case. They also don’t have to talk to anyone.
3:54 p.m. Judge asks Lori if she wants to be sentenced in about 30 days or wait until after the next trial. Lori asks what the judge suggests. He says it does not matter to her. Judge tells her to consult with her advisory counsel. Jury coming back.


3:53 p.m. Lori agrees that the victim’s family suffered emotional and physical harm. Also agrees that she had an accomplice. Lori stipulated to three factors. Judge is bringing in jury and releasing them.
3:51 p.m. Lori says she is willing to stipulate to aggravating factors. Jury would need to find if this was a dangerous offense and if it causes financial harm or the victim died because of the conduct. Lori says she will stipulate to these. “Do you understand the jury would have to find these aggravating factors beyond a reasonable doubt?” Lori says yes. Judge could also find additional aggravating factors at sentencing.

3:50 p.m. Judge asks the clerk to poll the jury. She asks if it’s their true verdict. All say yes. Judge asks the jury to retire and be back in a few minutes.
3:49 p.m. GUILTY

3:47 p.m. Judge asks the foreperson if the jury has reached a verdict. “Yes we have.” Judge asks him to hand the verdict to his clerk.
 
This is an oldie but a goodie from after LVD murder convictions that I missed. It might be advisable to have a puke bucket at the ready.


7 Most Powerful Moments from Lori Vallow Daybell's Dramatic Sentencing​


 
The so-called “Doomsday Mom” was escorted out of a Maricopa County courtroom after a heated argument with the judge during the second day of her third trial.

The situation began when the trial didn’t start on time because Lori Vallow Daybell’s team was late with her files. Judge Justin Beresky called it “wholly unacceptable.”
Then, prosecutor Treena Kay said that during Vallow Daybell’s opening statements, she brought up self-character evidence about herself and how she’s “loving and peaceful.” Kay argued that those comments should give the state the ability to say that Vallow Daybell is a “four-time convicted murderer,” and be able to detail the murder of her estranged husband, Charles Vallow.

The judge agreed that it “opened a wide door” and warned that Vallow Daybell should not introduce character evidence about herself moving forward. If she does, Beresky said the state could do the same.
The issue escalated, and following a short recess, Vallow Daybell and Judge Beresky began raising voices at each other.

“Take her out!” the judge ordered, and Vallow Daybell was escorted from the courtroom by a detention deputy.
Another recess followed before she was brought back. Judge Beresky issued another warning, and Vallow Daybell apologized.

It would be TV gold in they put Daybell, Taylor Schabusiness and Letecia Stauch in a cell together.
 
Tho Lorie is doing a bit better than some who try to act as their own lawyer, she doesn't know what she's doing, but she still thinks she's the smartest person in the room. Her arrogance is what gets to me, telling the judge, don't yell at me, I've been very courteous to you. The judge says, you've been everything but courteous to me.

She tried to do a sick out but when that didn't work, she got snippy and snarky. She is going down for Brandon too and I thinks she knows it, but she'll think it's because she's such a powerful god that they need to get rid of her, not because she killed and attempted to kill so many people.

I always thought that Lorie was the instigator in everything that happened, Chad just gave her the excuses for doing it. Chad comes across as dumb as a box of rocks, Lorie is sly smart, a very bad combination.
 


A new day and a new cringe with Lorie. She wrote up a motion to recuse trial Judge Beresky, so that had to be sent to another Judge, who denied it, so she wrote up another motion to recuse the judge who denied her motion to recuse Judge Beresky, then she's complaining about the Judge talking about her sickness and denying her right to privacy, and not giving her water, when she has water on her desk every day and the Judge cleared the courtroom when they were talking about her trying to do a sick out. She's just being her same old sly, snotty, manipulative self.
 
A jury in Phoenix has convicted Lori Vallow Daybell of conspiring to kill her niece’s ex-husband in 2019, marking her second murder conspiracy conviction in Arizona in less than two months.
Daybell was convicted Thursday on a charge of conspiring to murder Brandon Boudreaux, who was once married to Daybell’s niece, outside his home in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert.
An Arizona jury convicted Daybell in late April of conspiring with her brother, Alex Cox, to kill her estranged husband, Charles Vallow, in 2019 at her home in Chandler, another Phoenix suburb.


The mother with doomsday religious beliefs has already been sentenced in Idaho to life in prison for killing her two youngest children and engaging in a plot to kill a romantic rival.
 
Another little tidbit that was revealed in this trial is that Melanie, Lorie's niece and Brandon's then wife is being investigated on conspiracy charges for the attempted murder, whether she is ultimately charged is another story. But I think she ought to be, the reason for them attempting to murder him was for his insurance money. Just like why Charles and Tammy were murdered for insurance money.
 
Lori Daybell was sentenced to two life sentences in Arizona on Friday for conspiring with her late brother to kill her fourth husband, who was fatally shot in 2019, and her niece's ex-husband, who survived a failed drive-by shooting that same year.
Daybell was found guilty of two counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in two separate trials in Maricopa County this spring. She was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years for each conviction, to be served consecutively, the judge said..
"In the face of such profound damage, a long prison sentence is not merely a punishment, it is a necessary affirmation that our society values justice, protection and the sanctity of human life," Judge Justin Beresky, who presided over both trials in Phoenix, said before handing down the sentences.
The so-called "doomsday mom" is already serving multiple life sentences after being convicted in 2023 of murdering two of her children. Prosecutors in the Idaho trial argued that she and her current husband, Chad Daybell, thought the children were possessed zombies and murdered them in 2019 so that they could be together. She was also found guilty of stealing Social Security survivor benefits allocated for the care of her children after they went missing.
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