But, as we have told again and again on this forum, the FLDS has absolutely no connection with the LDS.
Hmmm. Won’t be long we’ll have somebody in here defending Jeffs’ right to commit all the incest he wants ~ the women, after all, are his property!
In one case the girl testified against Jeffs to the grand jury but refused at the trial; prosecutor offered a deal not to prosecute her parents.
The DNA in Texas should make the family trees more plain and any crimes de facto.
One case involves Elissa Wall and her 2001 marriage to Allen Steed. Utah officials used that case to convict Jeffs of being an accomplice to rape. He is serving two five-to-life prison terms.
Also, Conn said marriages between “first cousins of the half blood” are not defined as incestuous under Arizona law. Wall and Steed have a common grandfather but different grandmothers. The same was true in the other case.
Ok color me a bit confused.
Reading those lines make it sound like Arizona is attempting to use the elsa wall case to try jeffs again.
How do you try someone for what they have already been tried for in another state.
If he performed another marriage in another state fine but on the same one I find that a bit of a reach unless there is part of the story not told.
I would think the “tainted” grand jury complaints are irrelevant.
Grand juries bring forward indictments, they can ask any question or for any witness. They do have to leave what they learn in the courtroom, in the courtroom. But they only hear from the prosecution, and they don’t need to be “unbiased.”
Do they have to forget what they know, through some quirk in Arizona law?