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Pretty Lies And Alibis

State's Response To Lori Daybell's Appeal - Part 2: Mark Means Disqualification

Pretty Lies And Alibis

GiGi McKelvey

True Crime, Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Part 2 breaking down the state's response to Lori Daybell's appeal motion:
  • The State of Idaho is asking the Idaho Supreme Court to uphold Lori Vallow Daybell’s murder convictions and life sentence without parole. Prosecutors argue the trial court acted correctly in all respects and that Vallow’s constitutional claims fail.

  • The State says Vallow’s original attorney was properly disqualified due to a serious conflict of interest after representing both Vallow and Chad Daybell during the alleged conspiracy. Because Vallow was incompetent at the time, prosecutors argue she could not legally waive that conflict, and the court was right to reject any waiver given the severity of the case.




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0:00.0

What you know, alibiers. Welcome to another episode of Pretty Lies and Alibis. I'm Gigi. Good to have you here at

0:06.2

Saturday, December 20th. I actually recorded this yesterday, but didn't have time to edit and get it out

0:12.7

before I had to go to my son's fire department's Christmas party. And I have to brag for a moment here.

0:18.9

He won Firefighter of the year. He was shocked. He had no clue. And I have

0:24.5

to say, one of the proudest mom moments I've had with that kid so far. He has worked so hard

0:30.0

getting his firefighter one and two over his sophomore and junior years of high school and then

0:35.6

getting his EMT his senior year, not too shabby,

0:39.1

to be 18 years old. So this next episode, we really get into the part of the filing that talks

0:46.2

about the justification the district court had in disqualifying mark means. It's a bit lengthy,

0:52.2

but there are some nuggets in there, and a big topic of

0:56.4

discussion is how Lori was incompetent during a lot of this when the decision was being made to

1:02.9

disqualify means, and also some unethical things that means did in the process. So let's jump in.

1:09.7

We are going to jump into the argument of the state's response

1:13.6

to Lori's appeal. Let's jump in. Ballow has failed to show that the district court violated

1:19.9

her Sixth Amendment right to counsel of her choice by disqualifying her attorney. And part A is the

1:26.3

introduction. The district court properly acted to protect

1:30.4

Ballow's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel by disqualifying her attorney

1:36.2

who had previously represented her co-conspirator with respect to the same conspiracy.

1:42.2

Ballow's right to her counsel of choice does not extend to an attorney who is laboring under an

1:47.5

actual conflict or serious potential conflict of interest.

1:52.0

Nor could Vallow's proffered waiver of the conflict suffice because she was incompetent and could not knowingly,

1:59.0

intelligently, and voluntarily waive her right to conflict-free

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