Crime · Ada County
Idaho Supreme Court Hears Appeal in Vallow Daybell Murder Convictions
Attorneys argued Monday before the Idaho Supreme Court in Boise whether Lori Vallow Daybell's convictions for killing her two children, Joshua "JJ" Vallow (7) and Tylee Ryan (16), and conspiring to murder Tammy Daybell should be overturned because she was denied her chosen attorney at her 2023 trial. The appeal centers on a lower-court judge's disqualification of her prior lawyer over a conflict of interest from representing both Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell. Vallow Daybell received three life sentences in Idaho while Chad Daybell was sentenced to death; the children's bodies were found buried on Chad Daybell's rural Idaho property after they went missing in 2019. Prosecutors referenced Arizona cases involving the fatal shooting of Charles Vallow in Chandler and a gunshot aimed at Brandon Boudreaux in Gilbert as evidence context.