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Please excuse the typos. These are live updates from the courtroom.
11:39 a.m. Court is taking a 30-minute recess before Chad will be sentenced on the remaining charges. The victims and families are in tears.
11:37 a.m. Judge Boyce will also sentence Judge Boyce for the insurance fraud charges now.
11:37 a.m. Chad Daybell has been given the death penalty by the jury. Chad is still emotionless.
11:36 a.m. The clerk is reading every aggravating factor, and all of them do not find that the death penalty is unjust.
11:36 a.m. It looks as if one of the jurors is crying.
11:35 a.m. The microphone has broken. They are fixing it.
11:32 a.m. The jury has found that the mitigating factors are not compelling enough, that the death penalty is unjust.
11:28 a.m. The jury has found that ALL aggravating factors alleged by the state DO exist.
11:27 a.m. Boyce says the verdict form is “long and complicated” so he is taking a moment to review it.
11:26 a.m. The bailiff is giving the sentencing verdict to Judge Boyce.
11:25 a.m. Jurors have been seated.
11:24 a.m. There is a very heavy vibe in this room right now, seconds before we find out if Chad Daybell will spend the rest of his natural life in prison, or be sentenced to the death penalty.
11:23 a.m. Boyce says there was a jury question yesterday and one today. No word as to what they were. Jurors are being brought in.
11:22 a.m. Judge Boyce is on the bench. Waiting for jurors to come in and be seated.
11:21 a.m. Chad is emotionless and stoic – very similar to all of the previous days of trial.
11:15 a.m. Colby Ryan, Tammy’s family, and Larry and Kay Woodcock are in the courtroom. Chad Daybell’s children are not here.
11:13 a.m. Chad Daybell has entered the courtroom. He is wearing a blue shirt and blue tie. Attorneys are at their tables.
11:12 a.m. In the courtroom, waiting for Chad Daybell’s sentencing verdict to be read.
10:51 a.m. Hearing now, that court will start at 11:15 a.m.
10:49 a.m. Tammy’s family is now here, standing outside the courtroom.
10:43 a.m. Just heard from Larry Woodcock that WE HAVE A SENTENCING VERDICT! Court will begin at 11 a.m.
10:33 a.m. Still sitting in the hallway! I just had a very nutritious and fulfilling Kit Kat bar – breakfast of champions. Sitting in the hallway with me are about 20 interested public/media members, Larry and Kay Woodcock, and two bailiffs. Tammy’s family has not come upstairs.
9 a.m. Kaitlyn Hart with EastIdahoNews.com, back in the courthouse for day 2 of Chad Daybell’s sentencing phase. The jury has been deliberating over whether Chad will face life in prison or the death penalty for nearly seven hours. As soon as I hear anything new, I will update this page.
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