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Lori Vallow Daybell, the Idaho woman serving a life sentence for murdering her two children, has appealed her convictions to the state Supreme Court, court documents show.
In the motion filed last week, Vallow Daybell바카라 게임 웹사이트s attorney said her legal team intends to raise whether Vallow Daybell was mentally competent to stand trial in the deaths of her children, Tylee Ryan, 16, and Joshua 바카라 게임 웹사이트JJ바카라 게임 웹사이트 Vallow, 7.
Attorney James Archibald also requested that a state public defender be assigned to assist in the appeal as Vallow Daybell says she cannot afford an attorney.
Vallow Daybell was convicted by a jury in May of murdering her children and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in July. She was also convicted of conspiring to kill her husband바카라 게임 웹사이트s first wife, Tammy Daybell.
Following her indictment and not guilty plea in 2021, a judge ruled Vallow Daybell was incompetent to stand trial, but she was deemed fit to proceed with trial after spending nearly a year in a mental hospital.
Vallow Daybell has maintained her innocence.
The children were last seen in September 2019, and Tammy Daybell died the following month; Vallow and Chad Daybell were married weeks later. In June 2020, law enforcement authorities discovered the remains of Tylee and JJ in Daybell바카라 게임 웹사이트s backyard in Fremont County.
Chad Daybell is set to be tried separately in April on two felony counts of conspiracy to commit destruction; alteration or concealment of evidence; and two felony counts of destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence. He has pleaded not guilty.
Couple accused of holding apocalyptic religious beliefs
An indictment filed in May 2021 against Chad Daybell and Vallow Daybell accuses them of endorsing and espousing 바카라 게임 웹사이트religious beliefs for the purposes of바카라 게임 웹사이트 justifying or encouraging the killings of Tammy Daybell and the children. Vallow Daybell was also accused of collecting Social Security benefits on behalf of her children after their deaths, according to the indictment.
The judge who sentenced Vallow Daybell said he believed the state바카라 게임 웹사이트s case that she murdered her children to 바카라 게임 웹사이트remove them as obstacles and to profit financially,바카라 게임 웹사이트 calling it 바카라 게임 웹사이트the most evil and destructive path possible.바카라 게임 웹사이트 Judge Steven W. Boyce also said Vallow Daybell justified their killings 바카라 게임 웹사이트by going down a bizarre, religious rabbit hole.바카라 게임 웹사이트
The case began in late November 2019, when relatives asked police in Rexburg, Idaho, to do a welfare check on JJ because they hadn바카라 게임 웹사이트t talked to him recently. Police didn바카라 게임 웹사이트t locate him at the family바카라 게임 웹사이트s house and were told by Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell he was staying with a family friend in Arizona, according to authorities.
When police returned the next day to serve a search warrant, the couple was gone. They were found months later in Hawaii, in January 2020, while the search for the missing children continued back home.
By that time, Tylee and JJ had been dead for months, according to prosecutors. Tylee was believed to have been killed between Sept. 8 and 9, 2019, and JJ between Sept. 22 or 23, prosecutors said.