Hello, Hidden Gems.

For those who are tuning in for the first time, I'm Laura Matthias, a former broadcast journalist.

This is hidden true crime where we uncover the hidden motives of unimaginable crime.

And one of those crimes that we have been covering, or I should say uncovering, is the Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell case.

And we have been doing this uncovering what is hidden in this case for five and a half years,

nearly six years.

Lori, a convicted murderer, just keeps on fighting, doesn't she?

And to remind everyone where we left off last week, Lori Valo Debel filed a motion for a retrial

in her latest conspiracy to murder conviction, the killing of her then husband, Charles Ballo.

And she cited five specific reasons. Well, and now the state of Arizona or the prosecution, state prosecution,

same same, they have officially responded. And really, it's fascinating. Hidden True Crimes

Reporting is mentioned in the state's response. And we are going to go over all of it today.

For those who want to review, though, of Lori's retrial filing.

Again, we did a video on that report last week, breaking it all down if you would like to watch or listen on our podcast.

And the link will be in the description of this episode.

But for a quick summary, the five reasons Lori cited that she thinks that she deserves

a retrial were, one, jury misconduct in regards to Juror 15 or Carl's statement directly after

the verdict was read, two, the preclusion of Tiley and Alex's statements and in a miscible,

amissible, I was wearing a retainer earlier, forgive me,

expert testimony by Detective Daniel Coons, and three, a discovery violation for a prosecutorial misconduct, and finally, fine, the court's lack of impartiality. As for the state's response, we are going to jump in

because it is a lot. And like I said, this is, this is fascinating. I'm so glad that we're going to

break this down together. When it comes to responding to Lori's claim of juror misconduct. The motion filed by the states,

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