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Polygamist Leader Warren Jeffs To Get New Trial
(Salt Lake City, UT) -- The Utah Supreme Court has decided polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs will get a new trial.
The state's highest court ruled prosecutors had failed to prove Jeffs knew or intended for a rape to occur after he presided over the marriage of a 14-year-old girl in 2001.
Jeffs was convicted in 2007 on two counts of being an accomplice to rape.
The Utah Supreme Court ruled that if the young girl was forced to have sex after she was married, the groom can be charged with a crime.
Jeffs still faces charges of bigamy, sexual assault against a child and aggravated assault in Texas.
Jeffs is the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
There are about ten-thousand members scattered mostly in Utah, Arizona and Texas.
(Copyright 2010 by VERTEXNews/Newsroom Solutions)
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