SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who is serving a life sentence for sexually assaulting his two child brides, has asked for a new trial, claiming his religious rights were violated. The 55-year-old spiritual leader of a breakaway Mormon sect made the request in a handwritten note from a Texas hospital where he [...]
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Warren Jeffs was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting two child brides after a whirlwind trial in which the polygamist sect leader insisted on representing himself, only to remain silent through much of the proceedings and present just one witness – a church elder who gave an extended Sunday school lesson on [...]
SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury convicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs of child sexual assault Thursday in a case stemming from two young followers he took as brides in what his church calls “spiritual marriages.” The 55-year-old head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints stood stone-faced as [...]
SAN ANGELO, Texas — The punishment phase in the child sex assault trial of Warren Jeffs has resumed without the polygamist leader in the courtroom. Jeffs asked Friday to be excused in protest. He didn’t want anyone to represent him, but state District Judge Barbara Walther appointed two standby attorneys. Defense attorney Deric Walpole says [...]
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