Sect leader’s trial won’t be moved
From Times Wire Reports
A judge rejected a request to move the trial of a polygamous-sect leader from St. George to Salt Lake City but said he would change his mind if he couldn’t seat a fair-minded jury.
Judge James Shumate said jury selection in the trial of Warren Jeffs would be conducted in private.
Jeffs, 51, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is charged with rape as an accomplice in the spiritual marriage of a 14-year-old girl to a 19-year-old cousin in 2001.
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