It is.
The rest is obfuscation over an attempt to remove the lawyer, and get a more FLDS friendly lawyer to take care of this particular witness.
It doesn’t take much to see that if this case is important, and the girl has been given protection from a certain male, then that male is likely the target of the allegation.
Ergo, she was married to him. He is 38, she is sixteen, and the law says that is a no-no.
I think everyone’s suspicions should be considered because it is likely true that :
The witness is, or has turned uncooperative.
The attorney may have been ‘coercing’.
Willie may have been intimidating.
The girl may have written the letter, though I don’t know about it’s legal standing with the Judge.
The girl may show up with a new attorney, and still we won’t know if she wanted to, or was intimidated into doing so.
And we may not hear much except little snippets like this, with unresolved details, because it sells laundry detergent.