4 weeks ago
355
Lori Vallow Daybell is on trial in Maricopa County, Arizona, on one charge of conspiracy to commit the murder of Charles Vallow, her fourth husband. Nate Eaton is live in the courtroom with updates. Please excuse any typos. Times listed below are in Mountain Standard Time, so they are an hour behind Idaho. (Arizona does not observe Daylight Saving Time.) The most recent updates are at the top.
10:58 a.m. Cowden explains the time it takes to drive to the scene, work with the patient, clean up the scene, take care of all the equipment and then drive away. Lori asks, “When you were done with the patient, were in the house or did you exit the house?” Cowden says they remove all their equipment from the house and then they go to the front of the truck where they clean all the equipment, stock up the truck and be ready to respond to another call.
10:57 a.m. Cowden estimates he was at the scene for approximately 20-25 minutes. He drove into the scene and drove out of the scene. He clarifies that total on scene time was 20 minutes.
10:56 a.m. Lori asks Cowden if he wrote a report in relation to the incident. He says no. She says, “You don’t have to document anything?” Cowden responds that one person does the report.
10:54 a.m. Lori asks Cowden if he reviewed the audio from the 911 call in preparation for his testimony. He says no. Lori asks what he reviewed for today. Cowden says he reviewed his dispatch notes, his testimony from Idaho and other paper documentation.
10:54 a.m. Lori asks who announces the time of death. Cowden responds the captain – he’s the lead of the crew. Captain Keller called the time of death and documented it, according to Cowden.
10:52 a.m. Lori asks about the procedures Cowden took when giving CPR and the time it took to administer. She asks if the shirt was cut in the back to see the exit wounds. Cowden says the shirt was only cut once – on the side – and the shirt was likely removed from Charles’ body. Cowden didn’t personally remove the shirt, he was doing chest compressions, but believes one of his colleagues did.
10:48 a.m. Lori asks, “How long did you administer CPR before you did the flip over?” Cowden responds, “Before we rolled him to look at his back?” Lori says, “Yes.” Cowden says, “Maybe up to a minute.”
10:47 a.m. The video from the courtroom will begin streaming in about 10 minutes. You can watch here.
10:46 a.m. Treena Kay objects to a question Lori asked. Judge sustains it, then says, “Next question.” Lori looks at him and says, “I got it, your honor.”
10:45 a.m. Lori says, “If you didn’t have the video, it might be difficult for a bunch of first-timers to know exactly what to do when given CPR. If you couldn’t show them and could only tell them, could it be difficult?” Cowden says that’s possible, depending on the person.
10:43 a.m. Lori asks about Cowden’s experience as a CPR instructor. He says he has taught hundreds of people who have never learned CPR. Lori asks about first-timers being taught the appropriate place to put their hands. “Do you show them or just tell them in class where to put their hands?” Lori says. Cowden says it’s a video-based curriculum.
10:42 a.m. Lori asks if special scissors were used. Cowden says trauma shears were used to cut the shirt off.
10:41 a.m. Lori asks the color of Charles’. He believes it was a dark-colored shirt. Lori asks about blood. Cowden recalls seeing blood on the chest. Lori asks how the procedure works when the shirt is cut off. Cowden says he continued giving CPR when one of his colleagues cut off the shirt.
10:40 a.m. Lori begins questioning Cowden. She asks what he did when he walked into the house. Cowden says he did an assessment of Charles that showed he was unresponsive and not breathing. Cowden began giving chest compressions. Cowden noticed there were two gunshot wounds in Charles’ shirt.
10:38 a.m. Chandler firefighter Scott Cowden is on the stand. FYI: the juror who was dismissed today was one of the three women on the jury. Two women remain in the group.
10:35 a.m. Beresky asks if the video was suggested on YouTube. Juror says it was an algorithm type thing. Treena has no follow up questions. Lori has no questions. Judge tells the juror to go back into the juror room. Beresky says he’s inclined to keep the juror on the jury as he doesn’t have independent or additional memory of the video. Treena Kay agrees to keeping him. Lori has no objection. The juror remains.
10:34 a.m. When the video was shown in court yesterday, the juror was reminded of the video. Treena Kay asks the juror if he recalls any of the audio from the video when he watched it outside of court. The juror does not remember. Yesterday very little audio was played in court.
10:32 a.m. Juror #16 is in the courtroom. He told the court staff that he may have seen a video related to the case on YouTube in the past. Judge asks if he has specific memories of being shown the video or what was in the video. He didn’t do any research on the video and was shown it from a friend on YouTube. That’s all he remembers.
10:31 a.m. Beresky says based on the sidebar, juror #4 is excused. We have two alternates remaining. Juror #16 will be brought in for individual questioning. There will be no media recording of the questioning.
10:27 a.m. Lori says some of her team is running behind. Judge Beresky says there is a juror issue that needs to be discussed in a sidebar. Prosecutor, defense and judge put on headphones as white noise is played in courtroom.
10:26 a.m. Day 2 of Lori Vallow Daybell’s trial is underway in Maricopa County. Lori just walked in wearing a navy blue dress suit. She is seated next to her advisory attorney. Treena Kay from the state is at the prosecutor’s table.
English (United States) ·