On July 26, 2011, Laurie Allen, the producer of the documentary film “Banking on Heaven” spoke live with In Session. In Session is covering the Warren Jeffs trial during their programming which airs each weekday from 9:00 am until 3:00 pm. Jeffs faces two sexual abuse charges stemming from the revelation he had married two child brides. The film “Banking on Heaven” interviews several escapees from the polygamist group including Warren Jeffs sister, Elaine Jeffs. Laurie Allen also spoke with Dr. Drew Pinsky on his program that aired on Monday, July 25, 2011.
Laurie Allen spoke about how she escaped from the Lebaron polygamous sect when she lived in Central America. She was sixteen-years-old at the time. Allen described her escape as follows, “Well, I actually jumped out the second-story window on to a flat bed truckload of pigs. One of my uncles had kidnapped me, and we were living in Central America. He was kind of like Jeffs . He was an outlaw, and you know, running from the law. And so, it was quite an ordeal escaping From Central America when I was 16 and not knowing where I had a single relative on the outside.
(Excerpt--see more at link)
SAN ANGELO, Texas — The third day of the Warren Jeffs trial proved to be a short one — the court convened at 1 p.m. and recessed in less than three and a half hours.
The court heard suppression of evidence arguments put forward by the defense. Some exhibits for the hearing, which began at 1 p.m. Wednesday before 51st District Judge Barbara Walther in the Tom Green Courthouse, had been sealed pending jury selection.
A jury was chosen but not sworn in Tuesday evening, the second day of the trial. Jeffs, leader of the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, faces first- and second-degree felony charges related to allegations that he participated in multiple marriages with underage girls while he was in Texas in 2005 and 2006.
(snip)
Walther has previously denied motions to suppress evidence in FLDS member criminal trials. Evidence from a 2009 suppression hearing, which lasted several days, has been offered in the present hearing.
(Excerpts--entire story at this this link)