Lori Vallow Daybell is accused of conspiring to kill her two children and her husband's late wife, and faces charges in Arizona in her previous husband's death.
BOISE, Idaho — A coalition of news organizations asked an Idaho judge to reject a request to ban cameras from the courtroom in a high-profile triple murder case.
"The zoom in on the defendant's face was so close that the obvious intent of the filming was not to listen to the arguments of counsel, but to gauge every facial expression of the defendant or her lawyers," Vallow Daybell's defense attorneys Jim Archibald and John Thomas wrote. "The public's confidence in the criminal justice system grows when the courtroom is open to all, including those who cannot physically attend," Wright said on Thursday."We reject any claim that the media has failed to comply with the court's orders balancing the rights of Ms. Daybell with the transparency necessary to serve the public interest.
Prosecutors say the couple promoted unusual religious beliefs to further the alleged murder conspiracies. Lori Vallow Daybell's former husband, who died while the two were estranged, said in divorce documents that Vallow Daybell believed she was a god-like figure responsible for ushering in the apocalyptical end times. Chad Daybell wrote doomsday-focused fiction books loosely based on the theology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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