Utah 3rd District Court Judge Denise Lindberg ruled on Monday, April 2, 2012, that FLDS attorneys Rodney Parker and Kenneth Okazaki must pay former FLDS member Richard Holm $11,568.25 in attorney fees he accrued while pursuing a temporary restraining order against Warren Jeffs, his brother Lyle, and the FLDS Church in December of last year.
The Texas Third Circuit Court of Appeals last Thursday rejected YFZ Ranch resident and FLDS Church member Raymond Merril Jessop’s appeal of his 2009 child rape conviction.
Schleicher County jurors found Jessop, 40, guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl who had been sealed to him in a polygamous or celestial marriage. They sentenced Jessop to 10 years in prison and fined him $8,000.
Evidence from YFZ Ranch jump starts new investigations in Utah
Thursday, 03 May 2012 00:00
County Attorney Brock Belnap of Washington County, Utah, told reporters Monday that his office is conducting a number of criminal investigations in and around Hildale, UT, the long-time headquarters of the Warren Jeffs’ FLDS Church.
Jeffs tells Court of Criminal Appeals that Jesus demands his release
Thursday, 03 May 2012 00:00
In what one lawyer called “the worst appellate petition ever,” FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs invoked the name of Jesus Christ as he demanded the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals order his release from prison.
Jeffs, 56, is serving a life plus 20 years prison sentence after being convicted of sexually assaulting two underage girls he took as polygamous, or celestial wives.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refused last week to consider an appeal filed by FLDS prophet Warren Steed Jeffs. The court is the state’s highest criminal court and the last resort for felons seeking legal relief in the state court system.
Jeffs, who is serving life plus 20 years for child rape, must now look to the United States Supreme Court if he wants to ever be released from jail.
Utah 3rd District Court Judge Denise Lindberg ruled on Monday, April 2, 2012, that FLDS attorneys Rodney Parker and Kenneth Okazaki must pay former FLDS member Richard Holm $11,568.25 in attorney fees he accrued while pursuing a temporary restraining order against Warren Jeffs, his brother Lyle, and the FLDS Church in December of last year.
In what one lawyer called “the worst appellate petition ever,” FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs invoked the name of Jesus Christ as he demanded the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals order his release from prison.
Abram Harker Jeffs won’t be getting out of prison anytime soon. His conviction on child rape was upheld last week by the Texas Third Court of Appeals.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refused last week to consider an appeal filed by FLDS prophet Warren Steed Jeffs. The court is the state’s highest criminal court and the last resort for felons seeking legal relief in the state court system.