Posted on 06/24/2008 9:41:49 AM PDT by Alice in Wonderland
SAN ANGELO, Texas — A court-appointed attorney for a 16-year-old FLDS girl caught up in a grand jury investigation will go to court today under armed guard. Natalie Malonis confirmed to the Deseret News she has received death threats since she sought a restraining order against a high-profile member of the Fundamentalist LDS Church to prevent him from contacting her client.
"I've been getting death threats and I am being provided a security detail," she said this morning. "That was not even at my request. Law enforcement recognized the need for it."
Malonis said she did not know who has made the threats. She represents four FLDS members — including Pamela Jeffs, for whom she was praised by FLDS supporters when she managed to secure additional rights in court for the woman once declared by Texas authorities to be a minor.
Malonis' 16-year-old client, meanwhile, has fired off several e-mails asking her to step aside.
In e-mails sent to the Deseret News and posted on pro-FLDS Web sites, Teresa Jeffs accuses her court-appointed lawyer of not acting in her best interest.
"My attorney is going against my wishes. Maybe you need a restraining order that you can absolutely have nothing to do with me and you have to stay 1,000 feet away from me! What do you think of that?" she wrote in an e-mail to Malonis.
Jeffs has been subpoenaed to testify Wednesday before a grand jury investigating crimes involving FLDS members. The Texas Attorney General's Office said it could not find Jeffs to subpoena her, and Malonis went to court seeking a restraining order against FLDS member and spokesman Willie Jessop. In court papers, she accused Jessop of coercing the girl to avoid the subpoena and interfering with her relationship with her client. Judge Barbara Walther signed a temporary restraining order that technically prevents Jeffs' mother from allowing her daughter to have any contact with Jessop. A hearing on a more permanent restraining order will be held this afternoon.
On Monday, Malonis said she spoke with the attorney for Jeffs' mother, but no agreement could be reached.
"I hoped we could, but no ... ," she told the Deseret News.
Malonis said she is prepared to call witnesses and present evidence to suggest that the girl is being intimidated and pressured by FLDS members. The judge is not expected to consider Jeffs' request for a new lawyer.
Rod Parker, a Salt Lake attorney acting as a spokesman for the FLDS, believes Malonis is not following her court-appointed duties. Because Malonis is Teresa Jeffs' attorney ad litem and not her guardian ad litem, her job is to be an advocate for the child, he said.
"I think that she's really out on a limb in doing what she's doing and injuring her own client in a very public way," Parker said. "This is just a very unhealthy and dysfunctional attorney-client relationship. The court ought to grant Teresa's wish and give her another lawyer. This system of justice does not work appropriately when attorneys and their clients are at odds with each other." When the Texas Supreme Court ordered the hundreds of children taken in the April 3 raid to be returned to their parents, Jeffs was exempted.
Malonis said in court papers it was because the girl was an identified sex-abuse victim who had been "spiritually united" to an older man at 15. A special order was put in place for Jeffs, preventing her from contacting her father — FLDS leader Warren Jeffs — and a man named Raymond Jessop, who was not further identified.
The Deseret News normally does not name sex-abuse victims, but the girl has gone public in media interviews and in an e-mail forwarded to the Deseret News. She insists she is not a victim. In her e-mail, the girl said neither Willie Jessop nor Raymond Jessop has ever threatened her.
"That have treated (sic) so very kindly," she wrote.
Jeffs wrote in the communication with Malonis that she did not want the grand jury subpoena, but acknowledged being served.
"Well, they want me to appear before a grand jury. I do not have confidence in you and how can I get you to help me in such a situation that I am in when it feels like to me all you are doing is going against me," she wrote. "So, that is the reason that I am asking you to step aside and let me do what I need to do to and get me a different attorney."
Hey now - are you calling me slow?
Dork.
If the FLDS members return to the Ranch, and the bad guys are removed, the property is not going to be available for anyone to swoop in and clean up.
The FLDS has plenty of other members, and if the Ranch was empty, they could send plenty of the ‘faithful’ to the YEARNING FOR ZION Ranch.
They ‘still’ believe they need somewhere to live ‘pure’ and ‘protected’ from the ‘outsiders’ to await the punishment handed out to the heathens, while the ‘pure’ are given a YEAR OF RECOMPENSE. The YEAR FOR ZION. It’s in the Bible, and in Mormon,LDS,FLDS,RLDS doctrine.
I had even provided the exact phrase many weeks ago.
IF the property was sold off by the UEP, then yes, someone could buy it and profit.
But, It is very doubtful that will ever occur (except maybe after the YEAR FOR ZION thing happens. Then it will be empty, and up for sale)
Look to July 22, for the real blood, gore, and guts, indictments flying, contempt charges, and maybe even a 16 or 17 year old or two being led out of the courthouse in chains, just to show the world that Texans don’t mess around when it comes to polygamy.
Things in a grand jury can last for months before indictments are brought or the GJ retires. I don’t think meeting just a few hours once and another meeting in July may bring those charges if any are to come. Don’t forget they have to weed thru all those boxes of material, peice the stuff together, put together a coherent basis to present to the GJ. Also don’t forget the Feds as at some point they may well be holding grand jury testimony.
NHS High Priority Corridors Description
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I had to go back and read my post again, to see why you said that.
LOL !!!!
It sure read as if I was calling you a drooling idiot, didn’t it!
That’s OK. I’m a blathering idiot. I only drool when no one is looking.
(man, we are havin some weird thunder and rain here at the moment)
“But never forget that one day this route may well limit some of the CA port imports.”
You mean like some of that “PIER ONE” crap?
I think we could do without that.
SO, anyway, I provided (and Deport added to it) some of the best available info, so you can find out the truth for yourself.
I’m not trying to tell you what ‘is the truth’, but trying to give something better to judge by, than some email gossip.
Hope it helps you evaluate whether what you claim is true, or not.
No problem, on another thread, someone is claiming that I can’t distinguish between a mean, median, and mode.
I am getting tired of all this.
You mean like some of that “PIER ONE” crap?
Whatever the good citizens of these United States demand in goods there will be suppliers willing to make it available. Until the people go back to growing their own food, sewing their own clothes, forsaking the petrol fueled transport, etc. then we will find this crap flowing throughout the states via various ports of entry.
“No problem, on another thread, someone is claiming that I can’t distinguish between a mean, median, and mode.”
Willie is ‘mean’.
The ‘median’ is the middle of the Nafta Superhighway.
And if you use pi, and put icecream on top, you have pi ala ‘mode’.
Every ‘genius’ was considered a kook, and totally wrong, and only years later, does the ‘public’ learn that the idiot was a genius all along.
I think we all are. But we will doggedly follow the case, to ensure justice is done, the law is followed, the bad guys are put away, and the innocent are helped to restore their lives.
(of course, that may not happen, but one can hope for the best)
“Until the people go back to growing their own food, sewing their own clothes, forsaking the petrol fueled transport, etc. then we will find ...”
Maybe the FLDS folks had the right idea, at least in those respects.
Looking at the Google Map of the YFZ Ranch area, and the highways, it looks like they could add dozens of lanes, and only infringe on the edge of the YFZ Ranch locations, which means the GOVT would have to PAY THEM for that land (that looks like it is unused).
However, the Sheriff’s office, and the Baptist Church would be the ones that would have to be eliminated to allow expansion of the highway lanes.
While that may excite you, I don't think the image will play as well in the general community as it will in your girls chat group
Good morning.
Rather weird song, but I am fond of sand dunes and salty air. That’s why I live on the coast! :)
FRegards,
No, I read Mr. Parker's statement to the media.
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