Polygamist leader goes on trial
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The leader of a polygamous sect insisted a 14-year-old girl surrender her "mind, body and soul" to an older cousin, despite her objections to being married, a prosecutor said Thursday.
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was flown back to Utah on Tuesday to face sex charges involving the arranged marriages of underage girls and older men, authorities said.
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A criminal court case here paints a polygamist sect's leader as a controlling abuser who breaks up families and forces girls to marry men sometimes decades older.
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The fugitive leader of a polygamist Mormon sect has been arrested in southern Nevada, the FBI said Tuesday.
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was flown back to Utah on Tuesday to face felony sex charges involving the arranged marriage of an underage girl to an older man.
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A former police chaplain went on trial Thursday, the first Roman Catholic cleric to be prosecuted on charges of complicity in deaths and disappearances during Argentina's 1976-83 military dictatorship.
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A judge said he will close the courtroom Friday to hear arguments over evidence in the case of the leader of a polygamous sect accused of sex crimes.
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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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A federal grand jury in Utah on Wednesday indicted U.S. polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs on an additional charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
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Two people at the center of a criminal case against the leader of a polygamous sect may have shared a marriage, but not the same memories of it, according to what they have told jurors.
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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, a fugitive for nearly two years, appeared in a Utah courtroom Wednesday and said he was willing to wait several weeks for a judge to decide whether to send him to trial on charges of arranging an underage marriage.
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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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A young man whose arranged marriage to a young cousin led to the conviction of polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was charged Wednesday with her rape.
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A US polygamist sect leader is convicted by a court in the state of Utah for forcing a 14-year-old girl into marriage.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - A fundamentalist Mormon who married his 14-year-old cousin cried on Wednesday and said he felt "really bad" about the end of their relationship at the center of a trial highlighting a breakaway sect that practices polygamy.
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A prominent judge went on trial Monday on charges that he exposed himself to a woman on two separate occasions last year while travelling on trains in the capital.