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10 hrs ago | Salt Lake Tribune

Texas jury begins deliberating verdict in FLDS case

A Tom Green County jury deliberated 62 minutes today before finding Merril Leroy Jessop guilty of sexual assault of a child in connection with charges he illegally married an underage girl.

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Related Topix: Religion, Tom Green County, TX

Mon Mar 15, 2010

ReporterNews.com

Witness talks FLDS marriage

Jurors leaned in to peer at sacred forms in the case of Merril Leroy Jessop. Jessop, 35, a member of a polygamous sect, is on trial, charged with sexual assault of a child in connection with allegations he illegally married an underage girl.

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Related Topix: Religion, Meditative, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Sun Mar 14, 2010

KKSA-AM San Angelo

FLDS Trial Continues

As testimony wrapped up last week in the Child Sexual Assault trial of FLDS man Merrill Leroy Jessop, more than a dozen witnesses testified on Friday, including Texas Rangers who were on the April 2008 raid on the YFZ compound.

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Related Topix: Religion

Fri Mar 12, 2010

ReporterNews.com

DNA experts: 99 percent chance Jessop fathered girl's child

Two DNA forensic analysts today told jurors there is a 99 percent chance Merril Leroy Jessop is the father of a child whose mother he allegedly married when she was underage.

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Related Topix: Religion, Schleicher County, TX

Wed Mar 10, 2010

Salt Lake Tribune

Judge denies FLDS motion for mistrial

Lawyers are in the final stages of seating a jury for the trial of Merril Leroy Jessop, 35, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints charged with sexual assault of a child.

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Related Topix: Religion, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Tom Green County, TX

KKSA-AM San Angelo

Jury Almost Complete in FLDS Trial

In the child sex assault trial of FLDS sect man Merrill Leroy Jessop, a jury pool of more than 2 hundred has been narrowed down to 36.

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Related Topix: Religion, Tom Green County, TX

Mon Mar 08, 2010

Report news

Jury pool winnowed down in FLDS trial

Attorneys in the trial of Merril Leroy Jessop, 35, who faces charges of sexual assault of a child, finished general questioning of potential jurors Monday and began the lengthier process of questioning them one by one to seat a jury.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Religion, Tom Green County, TX, San Angelo, TX

Thu Mar 04, 2010

Berkeley Heights Public Library Book ...

The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff

This Friday the morning book group will discuss David Ebershoff's novel, The 19th Wife , which alternates between two narrators.

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Related Topix: Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism)

Tue Mar 02, 2010

KPHO-TV Phoenix

False Testimony Claim Probed In Jeffs Case

Court papers filed in an Arizona criminal case say a Utah sheriff's office is investigating allegations that false testimony was provided during the 2007 criminal trial of polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Utah, Religion

Mon Mar 01, 2010

KSTU - Fox 13

FLDS land deadline comes and goes, both sides still talking

A deadline to settle the years-long battle over land in the polygamous border towns of Hildale and Colorado City -- has come and gone.

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Related Topix: Religion, Hildale, UT, Salt Lake City, UT, Salt Lake City Metro

Fri Feb 26, 2010

KSTU - Fox 13

Utah guide offers tour of polygamous community

About 6,000 members of the FLDS Church call the border towns of Hilldale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona their home.

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Related Topix: Religion, Utah

Wed Feb 24, 2010

Cape Cod Times

The perils of polygamy

Who loves every woman he sees, There's always some kind of woman Who's a-puttin' him up a tree.

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Related Topix: National Geographic, Vocal, Blues, Black Entertainment, Ray Charles, Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), Opinion

Mon Feb 22, 2010

Vancouver Courier

Polyamorists, Catholics, teachers' union target polygamy law

Vancouverites who practise "polyamory" are hoping a clarification of Canada's polygamy law will make their lifestyle of more than one conjugal partner legal.

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Related Topix: Religion, Canada, Wedding

Sat Feb 20, 2010

KTVX

Lost children of polygamy

Caleb Barlow is the first to acknowledge that he's one of the lucky ones. Caleb left Colorado City when he was in his mid-teens. He followed in the footsteps of some of his older brothers who also left, disgusted with the control and the isolation of the polygamist, FLDS community.

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Related Topix: Religion

Thu Feb 18, 2010

National Public Radio

Photojournalist Captures 'Polygamy In America'

An elder of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints poses with his family, including his 5 wives.

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Related Topix: Religion, Meditative, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Wed Feb 17, 2010

Salt Lake City Weekly

10 Prophets Who Went to Prison

In Section: Utah Vice >> Posted By: Leo Dirr "The truth is ugly so we put our prophets in prison." Charles Manson Maybe that's why Bible study is so popular in the joint, eh? Here is a list of 10 religious leaders who did time behind bars: 10.

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Related Topix: Prison, Missouri, Religion

Mon Feb 15, 2010

WICS

Associated Press Writer

Documents filed in Utah officially establish a new president of the polygamous church led by Warren Jeffs since 2002.

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Related Topix: Religion

Sun Feb 14, 2010

News 88.9 KNPR - Nevada Public Radio

KNPR's State of Nevada

The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has several towns established in Nevada, Utah and Texas.

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Related Topix: Religion, Meditative, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Fri Feb 12, 2010

Salt Lake Tribune

Polygamous leader's diary mistakenly included in court case

Hundreds of pages from polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs' daily diary made their way from a court case involving UEP Trust fiduciary Bruce R. Wisan to an Internet blog this week -- only to be quickly pulled after Wisan's attorney acknowledged they were filed by mistake.

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Related Topix: Blog News, Religion, Colorado City, AZ

Wed Feb 10, 2010

Grits for Breakfast

AZ judge suppresses evidence from search of TX polygamist ranch

I said from the get-go that the search warrant used to get on the YFZ Ranch property in Eldorado back in 2008 was overbroad, based on lies , and that evidence derived from the Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup should be suppressed in criminal court.

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Related Topix: Religion

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