District Judge Steven W. Boyce issued an order on Tuesday declaring Lori Vallow once again "fit to proceed with trial" after a mental health competency hearing last week.
Prosecutors in the case oppose the move, but Daybell's lawyers say the couple will offer "mutually antagonistic defenses" that would make it impossible for both to be acquitted if tried together.
Lori Vallow is expected to undergo a competency evaluation on Wednesday to determine whether or not she's mentally fit to stand trial in the deaths of her two children, Tylee Ryan and Joshua "JJ" Vallow.
Judge Steven W. Boyce said he "sees no other alternative" than to vacate the upcoming January 2023 trial in light of concerns about Lori Vallow's competency to stand trial.
The judge overseeing Lori Vallow's murder trial made the decision to ban cameras from all future court proceedings after determining that visual media coverage of the case could pose "a great risk to the fair administration of justice."
Both prosecutors and Lori Vallow Daybell's lawyers support the request to bar cameras from the courtroom during her January trial for her kids' murders.
A spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office said prosecutors made the decision to drop the charges "without prejudice"—meaning they can be refiled in the future—to allow for time for an "additional review" of the case.
Netflix's new docuseries "Sins Of Our Mother" explains that Lori Vallow's husband Joseph Ryan died of a heart attack but, before his death, her brother Alex Cox attacked him.
Colby Ryan – Lori Vallow's only surviving child – is facing two counts of domestic violence sexual assault after a woman told police he raped her while the pair were watching TV in her Mesa, Arizona home, even though she told him to stop and tried to push him off of her.
