‘Unforeseen circumstances’: Lori Vallow Daybell attempted murder trial delayed
Published By admin
The second day of jury selection in Lori Vallow Daybell’s attempted murder trial was abruptly pushed to June 2, after Maricopa County Judge Justin Beresky released about a dozen potential jurors who said they could not return next week.
In court on May 30, Beresky told the court the delay was due to “unforeseen circumstances,” and said they would continue finalizing the 16-person jury panel on June 1.
Beresky said that if a jury is impaneled and given their preliminary instructions by 3 p.m. on June 1, he expected the parties would go into their opening statements that day.
Thirteen jurors were excused May 30, thinning the jury pool that had already been whittled down from an initial list of more than 200.
Many had already been dismissed on May 29 after admitting prior knowledge of Daybell or her high-profile cases.
The pause comes one day after Daybell’s motion to remove Beresky from the case was denied.
Daybell is charged with attempted murder in connection with the 2019 shooting in Gilbert of her niece’s ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux.
She is already serving a life sentence in Idaho for murdering her children and conspiring to kill the former wife of her current husband, Chad Daybell.
She was convicted in April in Maricopa County of conspiring to murder her then-husband Charles Vallow in Chandler, and faces sentencing after the Boudreaux trial concludes.
Content retrieved from: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/gilbert/2025/05/30/lori-vallow-daybell-attempted-murder-trial-delayed/83952529007/.
