# Bob Motta

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Lindsay Clancy's Judge Said THIS When the Foreperson Wrote Him Twice

Judge William Sullivan had two notes from Lindsay Clancy's foreperson telling him a juror wouldn't follow reasonable doubt instructions. Sullivan questioned each juror at the bench, took the holdout at his word, and sent them back. He never called the foreperson up to ask what she'd seen. The jur…

Did Lindsay Clancy's Judge Just Take a Juror at His Word?

The foreperson on Lindsay Clancy's jury wrote Judge Sullivan twice during deliberations. She told him a juror acknowledged doubt but refused to apply it as the law required. Sullivan brought the jurors to the bench, asked if they could follow the law, and believed the holdout's answer. He never q…

Did Lori Vallow Lose Her Lawyer in a Hearing She Was Barred From?

Lori Vallow Daybell is serving three life sentences for the murders of JJ and Tylee and the conspiracy to kill Tammy Daybell. On November 2nd, her lawyer asked the Idaho Supreme Court to throw all of it out because a judge took away her lawyer in 2021. Mark Means was removed in a hearing held in …

Lori Vallow: Chad Paid the Lawyer Who Did WHAT?!

Chad Daybell paid for Mark Means, and that payment became part of a legal problem that now reaches the Idaho Supreme Court. At oral arguments on November 2, 2026, the justices examined why Means was disqualified from representing Lori Vallow Daybell in December 2021, while she was deemed incompet…

Lindsay Clancy: Could a Phone Search Undo WHAT?!

In the Lindsay Clancy case, the jury’s verdict never arrived. The case ended in a mistrial, with eleven members favoring acquittal and one holdout favoring conviction. Now the legal battle has turned to the jury room itself: what did that holdout do, and how far can a court go to find out? During…

Lindsay Clancy: The Judge Refused to See WHAT?!

A cellphone. A sealed questionnaire. A jury split 11 to 1. Those are the pieces Lindsay Clancy’s lawyers want examined after her first murder trial ended without a verdict. Judge William Sullivan has said no to an inquiry into the holdout juror. The defense says that refusal matters to whether sh…

Lindsay Clancy: One Juror Changed WHAT Happens Next?!

The Lindsay Clancy jury did not agree. Eleven jurors leaned toward acquittal; the twelfth did not. That disagreement ended a trial about the deaths of her three children. But the defense says the court had more work to do before declaring a mistrial. Two notes from the foreperson questioned wheth…

Lindsay Clancy: The Lawyers Disagree on WHAT?!

At one hearing, the government says Lindsay Clancy will face another trial but will not commit to the charges. At another, a lawyer for Patrick Clancy says Lindsay is going to testify about warnings she gave her doctors. Her own defense attorney says that never happened. These are not small disag…

Lindsay Clancy: A Retrial and WHAT Testimony?!

A mistrial did not end the Lindsay Clancy case. But the next criminal proceeding remains unsettled, and a separate civil lawsuit has introduced a dispute between lawyers over what Lindsay supposedly told her medical providers. Both developments matter. Neither has yet produced the definitive ruli…

Lindsay Clancy: Two Courtrooms, WHAT Legal Risk?!

Lindsay Clancy left the first criminal trial without a verdict. Eleven jurors favored finding her not guilty by reason of insanity; a lone holdout disagreed, and Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial. At the November 2 hearing, the defense asked to end the prosecution on double-jeopardy grou…