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The Polygamy Blog
The Polygamy BlogReporter Nate Carlisle and photographer Trent Nelson cover polygamy for The Salt Lake Tribune. You can follow the Polygamy Blog on Twitter at @tribunepolygamy.
Here is what polygamous sect member Ross LeBaron Jr. wrote in support of the Bundy family
The movement for the states to take control of federal lands has strong support along the Utah-Arizona line. So does polygamy. LaVoy Finicum, the lone fatality in the conflict at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon, lived along that line. While Finicum did not belong to a polygamous sect ....
5th Amendment will be on display in fourth week of polygamous towns’ trial
If you love the right against self incrimination, this is your week in the trial of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz. The U.S. Department of Justice this week is expected to, kind of, call Lyle Jeffs and Joseph Allred. Jeffs is the brother of imprisoned Fundamentalist .....
.... this week, the Justice Department is expected to call Colorado City Mayor Joseph Allred. The precursor to this trial was a 2014 trial in which a Colorado City couple, Ron and Jinjer Cooke, alleged the towns illegally denied them utility connections. Allred was called at that federal trial and refused to answer almost anything.
He had reason to for such. In that 2014 trial and the current trial, there has been testimony about how Allred wrote to Warren Jeffs when Warren Jeffs was fleeing from the FBI and how Allred married an underaged girl.
That didn't help the towns' cause. The jury awarded the Cookes $5.2 million. The parties later settled the case for $3 million. .........
He had reason to for such. In that 2014 trial and the current trial, there has been testimony about how Allred wrote to Warren Jeffs when Warren Jeffs was fleeing from the FBI and how Allred married an underaged girl.
That didn't help the towns' cause. The jury awarded the Cookes $5.2 million. The parties later settled the case for $3 million. .........
Tribune Polygamy ?@TribunePolygamy 20 hours ago
New @RollingStone article on #FLDS and #ShortCreekTrial include photos from @sltrib's @trenthead
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/a-polygamist-cults-last-stand-the-rise-and-fall-of-warren-jeffs-20160209 #UtahCrime
A Polygamist Cult's Last Stand: The Rise and Fall of Warren Jeffs
The largest polygamist community in America is run by a madman in jail — who's started a civil war
By Jesse Hyde February 9, 2016
Short Creek, the largest polygamist enclave in America, is run by its prophet Warren Jeffs, even as he serves a life sentence in Texas for multiple convictions of child rape. ....
New @RollingStone article on #FLDS and #ShortCreekTrial include photos from @sltrib's @trenthead
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/a-polygamist-cults-last-stand-the-rise-and-fall-of-warren-jeffs-20160209 #UtahCrime
A Polygamist Cult's Last Stand: The Rise and Fall of Warren Jeffs
The largest polygamist community in America is run by a madman in jail — who's started a civil war
By Jesse Hyde February 9, 2016
Short Creek, the largest polygamist enclave in America, is run by its prophet Warren Jeffs, even as he serves a life sentence in Texas for multiple convictions of child rape. ....
[center]Warren Jeffs with some of his 80 or so wives.
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