Defense begins in polygamist's trial
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Defense attorneys for a polygamous-sect leader charged with sex crimes in the arranged marriage of a 14-year-old girl and her older cousin began their case Tuesday, trying to debunk the contention that his church places women in submissive roles.
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HILDALE, Utah  - From a cell in the Purgatory jail 10 months after his arrest, fundamentalist Mormon leader Warren Jeffs is still God's voice on Earth to thousands of polygamists in this isolated community.
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A defense attorney picked over the testimony of a key witness in the trial of a polygamous sect leader Monday, looking for discrepancies in her story about being forced to marry an older cousin when she was 14.
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 14--The trial to keep some 200 irrigation wells operational has started in the Weld County Courthouse.
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The leader of a polygamist sect was escorted into a courthouse under heavy security Tuesday for a hearing to determine if he will be tried on charges he forced a teenage girl to marry an older man.
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Steed   Jeffs will face charges in Utah first, and then in Arizona,   prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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Prosecuting Warren Jeffs on charges of rape as an accomplice could enhance, not diminish, the way the polygamist sect leader is revered by faithful followers, historians say.
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U.S. polygamist sect leader   Warren Jeffs, who was arrested in August after two years on the   run, was ordered on Wednesday to face a preliminary hearing to   determine if he should stand trial on charges of rape as an   accomplice.
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Polygamist sect leader Warren   Jeffs, who was arrested last week after two years on the run,   made his first Utah court appearance on Wednesday by   closed-circuit TV and told a judge he understood the charges   against him.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Scott Peterson&#39;s murder trial resumed Monday with his attorneys defending the assertions of an expert who testified about when Laci Peterson&#39;s fetus died.
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A former follower of a polygamous-sect leader sobbed on the witness stand Friday as she described the terror and despair she felt on the eve of her wedding at age 14, and said she became intensely depressed after having sex. "I kept thinking I felt like I was getting ready for death," she testified on the second day of the trial of Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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The trial of five men and a company accused of manslaughter in relation to the Hatfield rail crash begins.
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The defence in the multiple murder trial of Canadian pig farmer Robert Pickton is due to begin calling witnesses.
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The defence case in Conrad Black's trial begins with his former secretary defending his actions over alleged removal of evidence.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - The young woman who accuses the leader of the largest U.S. polygamous sect of being an accomplice to rape testified on Friday that she had never been kissed before learning that a marriage had been arranged for her at the age of 14.
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Jurors began deliberations Wednesday following closing arguments in the trial of a former priest accused of sexually molesting an altar boy, who shot the cleric on a city street a decade after the alleged abuse.
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Members of the polygamous sect led by self-proclaimed prophet Warren Jeffs never wanted the spotlight. As a jury decides if Jeffs is guilty of being an accomplice to rape, some are leaving town, some are living behind closed doors. And the mayor of one tiny community admits: "The reason I'm talking to you is because I've run into you and I don't really have a choice."