Judge Michelle Mallard said she could not find "any good cause" reason to lower Lori Vallow Daybell's bail
The information about the bail reduction was obtained from KTVB's live streaming of the hearing on its YouTube channel.
On Friday, during a bail reduction hearing, Judge Michelle Mallard told Lori Vallow Daybell and her lawyer, Mark Means, that there wasn’t any “good cause” for her to lower Lori Vallow Daybell’s bail from $1 million to something like $200,000 or even $100,000.
Here’s what the good judge said, exactly, “I am denying the motion for bond reduction because I cannot find any good cause to reduce bond further than it already has.”
The judge didn’t “find any good cause” because of all the wrong that Lori Vallow Daybell continues to do. And the wrong that Lori Vallow Daybell continues to do is her violation of a court order to take her two children, 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow, to either the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare or to the Rexburg Police Department so the state will know that the children are alive and well.
As y’all know, she’s still sitting in a Madison County Jail because she hasn’t shown the state that her children are standing up right and are all right.
It also doesn’t help Lori Vallow Daybell that the state of Idaho has named her, along with her spanking brand new husband Chad Daybell, as murder suspects in the mysterious death of Chad Daybell’s wife, Tammy Daybell.
That there plus the two children being missing wipes out “any good cause” reasoning that would have made Judge Mallard free that little birdy. The new Mrs. Daybell is just up a creek without a paddle.
Now, I know there are those of you who are wondering why the former judge in the case, Judge Faren Eddins, lowered that $5 million bail down to $1 million when he had this same “good cause” principle to follow.
Welp, Lori Vallow Daybell had two lawyers, Attorneys Edwina Elcox and Brian Webb, who were actual criminal lawyers.
This new fella she has, Mark Means, knows nothing about criminal law. All he does is bankruptcy, family law, and estate law. Basically, any and everything that isn’t criminal law.
I also believe that Judge Eddins looked over at that pink lipstick Lori Vallow Daybell was wearing, along with that wavy hair and smile she was flashing, and said to himself that he couldn’t let something so pretty stay locked up forever.
Needless to say, he gone. But let him tell it, he left the case because Idaho law lets lawyers ask for a judge’s removal “just because.”
As for her other lawyers, Elcox and Webb, they gone too. And they claim that “good cause” is why they said deuces to Vallow Daybell.
But, to be honest with you, I think they’re conscience got to them and they couldn’t continue defending a woman who they thought was as guilty as the wicked stepmother holding the poisonous apple in her hand.
Welp, now, Lori Vallow Daybell has a new judge and a new lawyer. The new judge told her no to lowering her bail, and the new lawyer has helped to extend her time in the Madison County Jail.
Yup, I can blame the new lawyer because he is, after all, a lawyer. And he knows that all of those procedural arguments that he spent over 2 hours given weren’t going to amount to a hill of beans.
He was standing up there, for over 2 hours, working up the wax in everybody ears, complaining about the COVID-19 polices that the prosecuting attorney, Rob Wood, said led to the folks at the jail recording Mark Means and Lori Vallow Daybell’s private conversations.
Don’t get me wrong, now, the jail was wrong to record what the lawyer and client rightfully expected to be a private conversation.
It looks like what it looks like which is somebody at the jail thought he/she will be cute by “accidently” recording the conversations of a lawyer and his client, in a high profile case, just so he/she could sell the recordings to TMZ, Nancy Grace, or somebody else with money enough to help that individual to sit down for his/her life.
Having said that, we, like Means, and other folks who know a little bit about the law know that procedural errors on the state’s side rarely, if ever, are enough to convince a judge to lift a defendant out of the neck deep number twos she’s in.
Procedural SNAFUs have to be of such that they change the outcome of a case to the point that they change a judge’s mind.
And as it stands, now, Judge Michelle Mallard’s view of the case isn’t changing because the facts of the case remain the same.
The two facts that neither Lori Vallow Daybell or her lawyer, Mark Means, can change are that Lori Vallow Daybell’s two children, 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow, are still missing and the state has charged her in the murder of her new husband’s, Chad Daybell, wife Tammy Daybell.
Those procedural SNAFUs can’t change those facts.
No sir!
On Friday, during a bail reduction hearing, Judge Michelle Mallard told Lori Vallow Daybell and her lawyer, Mark Means, that there wasn’t any “good cause” for her to lower Lori Vallow Daybell’s bail from $1 million to something like $200,000 or even $100,000.
Here’s what the good judge said, exactly, “I am denying the motion for bond reduction because I cannot find any good cause to reduce bond further than it already has.”
The judge didn’t “find any good cause” because of all the wrong that Lori Vallow Daybell continues to do. And the wrong that Lori Vallow Daybell continues to do is her violation of a court order to take her two children, 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow, to either the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare or to the Rexburg Police Department so the state will know that the children are alive and well.
As y’all know, she’s still sitting in a Madison County Jail because she hasn’t shown the state that her children are standing up right and are all right.
It also doesn’t help Lori Vallow Daybell that the state of Idaho has named her, along with her spanking brand new husband Chad Daybell, as murder suspects in the mysterious death of Chad Daybell’s wife, Tammy Daybell.
That there plus the two children being missing wipes out “any good cause” reasoning that would have made Judge Mallard free that little birdy. The new Mrs. Daybell is just up a creek without a paddle.
Now, I know there are those of you who are wondering why the former judge in the case, Judge Faren Eddins, lowered that $5 million bail down to $1 million when he had this same “good cause” principle to follow.
Welp, Lori Vallow Daybell had two lawyers, Attorneys Edwina Elcox and Brian Webb, who were actual criminal lawyers.
This new fella she has, Mark Means, knows nothing about criminal law. All he does is bankruptcy, family law, and estate law. Basically, any and everything that isn’t criminal law.
I also believe that Judge Eddins looked over at that pink lipstick Lori Vallow Daybell was wearing, along with that wavy hair and smile she was flashing, and said to himself that he couldn’t let something so pretty stay locked up forever.
Needless to say, he gone. But let him tell it, he left the case because Idaho law lets lawyers ask for a judge’s removal “just because.”
As for her other lawyers, Elcox and Webb, they gone too. And they claim that “good cause” is why they said deuces to Vallow Daybell.
But, to be honest with you, I think they’re conscience got to them and they couldn’t continue defending a woman who they thought was as guilty as the wicked stepmother holding the poisonous apple in her hand.
Welp, now, Lori Vallow Daybell has a new judge and a new lawyer. The new judge told her no to lowering her bail, and the new lawyer has helped to extend her time in the Madison County Jail.
Yup, I can blame the new lawyer because he is, after all, a lawyer. And he knows that all of those procedural arguments that he spent over 2 hours given weren’t going to amount to a hill of beans.
He was standing up there, for over 2 hours, working up the wax in everybody ears, complaining about the COVID-19 polices that the prosecuting attorney, Rob Wood, said led to the folks at the jail recording Mark Means and Lori Vallow Daybell’s private conversations.
Don’t get me wrong, now, the jail was wrong to record what the lawyer and client rightfully expected to be a private conversation.
It looks like what it looks like which is somebody at the jail thought he/she will be cute by “accidently” recording the conversations of a lawyer and his client, in a high profile case, just so he/she could sell the recordings to TMZ, Nancy Grace, or somebody else with money enough to help that individual to sit down for his/her life.
Having said that, we, like Means, and other folks who know a little bit about the law know that procedural errors on the state’s side rarely, if ever, are enough to convince a judge to lift a defendant out of the neck deep number twos she’s in.
Procedural SNAFUs have to be of such that they change the outcome of a case to the point that they change a judge’s mind.
And as it stands, now, Judge Michelle Mallard’s view of the case isn’t changing because the facts of the case remain the same.
The two facts that neither Lori Vallow Daybell or her lawyer, Mark Means, can change are that Lori Vallow Daybell’s two children, 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow, are still missing and the state has charged her in the murder of her new husband’s, Chad Daybell, wife Tammy Daybell.
Those procedural SNAFUs can’t change those facts.
No sir!
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