Phoenix (AZ Family/AP) — Lori Vallow, the so-called “terminally ill mother” convicted in the deaths of her children in Idaho, will be allowed to serve as a defense attorney in another murder case in Maricopa County. .
She is charged with conspiracy to commit murder. separated husbandthe attempted murder of Charles Vallow and her ex-boyfriend’s nephew, Brandon Boudreau.
Vallow appeared in a downtown Phoenix courtroom Friday after being deemed mentally healthy to stand trial the day before. In court, Ms. Vallow requested that she represent herself and reiterated that she was fully prepared to do so.
“Do you think you can defend yourself in court?” Judge Justin Belesky asked. “Yes,” Vallow replied.
“Could you tell me a little bit about why you want to express yourself?” Judge Beresky asked.
“For the past five years since my incarceration, I have dedicated myself to studying case law and criminal procedure rules in the states of Idaho and Arizona, as well as the Commonwealth. I studied family law and have actual trial experience,” Vallow explained. “I attended three different full trials from start to finish: one in family court and two in criminal court.”
If convicted, Vallow could face life in prison, with the possibility of parole after 25 years.
Her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, was shot and killed by her brother Alex Cox in 2019, and Cox told police he acted in self-defense and was not charged.
Vallow was previously sentenced to life in prison for conspiring in the deaths of two children in Idaho, 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan. She and her husband, Chad Daybell, were also convicted in the death of Chad’s wife, Tammy Daybell.
Daybell became Vallow’s fifth husband and was later sentenced to death for the murders of her children and Tammy.
prosecutor idaho incident Dozens of people were arrested to support claims that Daybell and Vallow conspired to murder their two children and that Tammy conspired to remove obstacles to their relationship and obtain survivor benefits and life insurance. called witnesses.
Prosecutors say the couple is an apocalyptic belief system in which people can become possessed by evil spirits and turn into “zombies” and that the only way to save a possessed person’s soul is for the possessed body to die. He claimed that he justified the killing by making up a story.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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