Judge Faren Eddins has found his way back onto another one of Lori Vallow's cases
Judge Faren Eddins has found his way back onto another one of Lori Vallow’s cases. The “good judge” is now presiding over Lori Vallow and her third husband’s, Chad Daybell, felony case involving the burial of her children, 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow, in Chad Daybell’s pet cemetery.
Keep in mind, folks, these are the same children who Judge Faren Eddins knew were missing but still thought it was all right to lower Lori Vallow’s $5 million bond down to $1 million.
Welp, that there lil’ act, along with Judge Faren Eddins presiding over Lori Vallow’s custody case, resulted in Lori Vallow’s former attorney’s, Attorneys Edwina Elcox and Brian Webb, getting, the “good judge” to remove himself from the case.
The “good judge” reasoned that he had to step aside from Lori Vallow’s case because Idaho’s law lets a lawyer ask the courts to “disqualify a judge, without reason, without cause, just because.”
FYI, Elcox and Webb are the same lawyers who decided it’ll be best that they not be the “devil’s advocate.” “Good cause exists for granting this motion based upon the standards set forth in the Idaho Criminal Rules and Idaho Rules of Professional Conduct. Counsel cannot reveal more information than this without disclosing privileged attorney-client communications,” is what the Fox13 folks told everybody that Elcox and Webb said.
Elcox and Webb more than likely said it because they knew that Lori Vallow was lying like a cross tire about her children’s whereabouts. Elcox and Webb didn’t want that on their resumes. No sir! They didn’t want folks pointing their fingers at them and saying, “Just Dirty!”
Judge Faren Eddins, though, doesn’t mind having the letters “JD” branded on his forehead. This is a national case that could put Judge Faren Eddins on the map, making a pathway for him to become a TV judge so he can start making that Judge Judy loot.
I know there are those of you who are wondering, “Why did they let him back on the case, then?!” That’s a good question that neither the state of Idaho or the judge can answer.
Idaho is a state with many venues, meaning they could’ve found another judge in another jurisdiction or even the same jurisdiction to take over the felony case against Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell.
The court assigned Judge Michelle Mallard to take Judge Faren Eddins spot after he removed himself from Lori Vallow’s case involving her missing, now dead children. So why couldn’t somebody in the courthouse find another judge to take this felony case, here, involving Vallow and her third husband, Daybell, hiding, tampering, and storing two dead bodies in a pet cemetery?! It just doesn’t make any sense to me, either; especially when considering the legal argument to be raised on appeal.
Here, you have this judge, here, who removes himself from the case, upon the lawyers’ request, right after lowering the defendant’s $5 million bond down to $1 million to only turn right back around and get on another case involving the same missing children who were later found in their step-daddy’s pet cemetery.
Now, compare all that Judge Faren Eddins did to what Judge Michelle Mallard did when Lori Vallow’s new lawyer, Mark Means, asked that her $1 million bond be lowered down to something that she could afford. “I am denying the motion for bond reduction because I cannot find any good cause to reduce bond further than it already has,” is what Judge Michelle Mallard told Mark Means.
Unlike Judge Faren Eddins who lowered Lori Vallow’s bond even though he knew that she and her spanking brand new husband had fled the mainland to Hawaii in order to escape our good justice, Judge Mallard took everything into consideration.
“Everything” is the fact that the children were still missing, and Rexburg Police Department Detective Ron Ball’s concern that Lori Vallow would use the $430,000 windfall from Chad Daybell’s late wife’s, Tammy Daybell, insurance policy to post bail and then high tail it on up out of here to a place that wouldn’t ship them back to the states to face our good justice system.
Judge Michelle Mallard paid attention to all of that, but Judge Faren Eddins, unh-unh. Lori Vallow had him wide open. He took one look at that woman with that blond, wavy hair and pink lipstick and most likely said to himself, “It’ll be a crime to keep this woman locked up in the penitentiary.” So he lowered her bail down to something that would keep the red flags down.
Those red flags, though, are now raised up high for everybody to see that Judge Faren Eddins has sowed the seeds of distrust for Lori Vallow’s lawyer to use on her appeal.
The fact that he was the judge who presided over her custody case and the case involving her then missing children, along with the fact that he is now presiding over the felony case involving the burial of her then missing children in her third husband’s pet cemetery, are all enough for a semi-competent lawyer to successfully argue bias on appeal.
Keep in mind, folks, these are the same children who Judge Faren Eddins knew were missing but still thought it was all right to lower Lori Vallow’s $5 million bond down to $1 million.
Welp, that there lil’ act, along with Judge Faren Eddins presiding over Lori Vallow’s custody case, resulted in Lori Vallow’s former attorney’s, Attorneys Edwina Elcox and Brian Webb, getting, the “good judge” to remove himself from the case.
The “good judge” reasoned that he had to step aside from Lori Vallow’s case because Idaho’s law lets a lawyer ask the courts to “disqualify a judge, without reason, without cause, just because.”
FYI, Elcox and Webb are the same lawyers who decided it’ll be best that they not be the “devil’s advocate.” “Good cause exists for granting this motion based upon the standards set forth in the Idaho Criminal Rules and Idaho Rules of Professional Conduct. Counsel cannot reveal more information than this without disclosing privileged attorney-client communications,” is what the Fox13 folks told everybody that Elcox and Webb said.
Elcox and Webb more than likely said it because they knew that Lori Vallow was lying like a cross tire about her children’s whereabouts. Elcox and Webb didn’t want that on their resumes. No sir! They didn’t want folks pointing their fingers at them and saying, “Just Dirty!”
Judge Faren Eddins, though, doesn’t mind having the letters “JD” branded on his forehead. This is a national case that could put Judge Faren Eddins on the map, making a pathway for him to become a TV judge so he can start making that Judge Judy loot.
I know there are those of you who are wondering, “Why did they let him back on the case, then?!” That’s a good question that neither the state of Idaho or the judge can answer.
Idaho is a state with many venues, meaning they could’ve found another judge in another jurisdiction or even the same jurisdiction to take over the felony case against Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell.
The court assigned Judge Michelle Mallard to take Judge Faren Eddins spot after he removed himself from Lori Vallow’s case involving her missing, now dead children. So why couldn’t somebody in the courthouse find another judge to take this felony case, here, involving Vallow and her third husband, Daybell, hiding, tampering, and storing two dead bodies in a pet cemetery?! It just doesn’t make any sense to me, either; especially when considering the legal argument to be raised on appeal.
Here, you have this judge, here, who removes himself from the case, upon the lawyers’ request, right after lowering the defendant’s $5 million bond down to $1 million to only turn right back around and get on another case involving the same missing children who were later found in their step-daddy’s pet cemetery.
Now, compare all that Judge Faren Eddins did to what Judge Michelle Mallard did when Lori Vallow’s new lawyer, Mark Means, asked that her $1 million bond be lowered down to something that she could afford. “I am denying the motion for bond reduction because I cannot find any good cause to reduce bond further than it already has,” is what Judge Michelle Mallard told Mark Means.
Unlike Judge Faren Eddins who lowered Lori Vallow’s bond even though he knew that she and her spanking brand new husband had fled the mainland to Hawaii in order to escape our good justice, Judge Mallard took everything into consideration.
“Everything” is the fact that the children were still missing, and Rexburg Police Department Detective Ron Ball’s concern that Lori Vallow would use the $430,000 windfall from Chad Daybell’s late wife’s, Tammy Daybell, insurance policy to post bail and then high tail it on up out of here to a place that wouldn’t ship them back to the states to face our good justice system.
Judge Michelle Mallard paid attention to all of that, but Judge Faren Eddins, unh-unh. Lori Vallow had him wide open. He took one look at that woman with that blond, wavy hair and pink lipstick and most likely said to himself, “It’ll be a crime to keep this woman locked up in the penitentiary.” So he lowered her bail down to something that would keep the red flags down.
Those red flags, though, are now raised up high for everybody to see that Judge Faren Eddins has sowed the seeds of distrust for Lori Vallow’s lawyer to use on her appeal.
The fact that he was the judge who presided over her custody case and the case involving her then missing children, along with the fact that he is now presiding over the felony case involving the burial of her then missing children in her third husband’s pet cemetery, are all enough for a semi-competent lawyer to successfully argue bias on appeal.
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