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June 14, 2011 • The Associated Press
San Angelo, Texas • The oft-delayed criminal case against polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was set to begin July 25, after a Texas court on Tuesday rejected defense motions for more time and to remove the judge presiding over it.
Prosecutors alle... Full Story
April 27, 2011 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
Polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs has been moved to a West Texas jail that is closer to his group's Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado but allows somewhat fewer opportunities to communicate with the outside world.
The Fundamentalist Churc... Full Story
July 7, 2011 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
Less than three weeks before he is scheduled to go to trial in West Texas, polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has fired his defense attorney.
Prominent Fort Worth attorney Jeff Kearney will be replaced with Emily Munoz Detoto, of Houston, according... Full Story
July 18, 2011 • By Will Weissert Associated Press
SAN ANGELO, Texas — The defense team for polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs again tried to have the judge hearing his case removed for bias, soliciting testimony Monday from court officials in an attempt to show she took an unusual interest in the... Full Story
July 20, 2011 • By Will Weissert The Associated Press
San Angelo, Texas • A visiting judge on Tuesday denied polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs' second attempt to remove the West Texas judge overseeing his upcoming sexual assault trial, this time because of alleged bias after she made calls to inq... Full Story
July 20, 2011 • The Associated Press
San Angelo, Texas • The latest new lawyer for polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs won't get more time to prepare for trial after a West Texas judge told him Wednesday to be ready in five days to defend his client on child sex assault charges.
D... Full Story
July 27, 2011 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
San Angelo, Texas •After two days of intense and at times contentious jury selection, 10 women and two men were chosen Tuesday evening to decide the fate of polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs.
The unexpectedly quick selection of the panel puts Jeff... Full Story
July 30, 2011 • By Peg Mcentee Tribune Columnist
The photo showed Warren Jeffs holding a 12-year-old girl in his arms and kissing her. An attorney said at the time that it was "how a husband would kiss a wife."
The first time I saw it, I reeled away in shock.
This was in 2008, after the raid on an... Full Story
August 6, 2011 • By Robert Kirby The Salt Lake Tribune
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints leader Warren Jeffs earlier in his trial threatened a Texas judge and prosecutors for infringing on his religious freedom — specifically his right to marry marginally pubescent girls.
On Ju... Full Story
August 5, 2011 • By Peg Mcentee Tribune Columnist
Taken as a whole, the life and fall of Warren Jeffs is proof that possession of absolute power is corrosive, even maddening, to those in its thrall.
As we know, Jeffs' power over some 10,000 men, women and children is as vast as his sexual appet... Full Story
August 8, 2011 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
San Angelo, Texas • The defense on Monday rested its case in the punishment phase of the Warren Jeffs child sex-assault trial.
Jed Silverman, a Houston lawyer who came on as Jeffs' latest defense attorney on Saturday, asked the judge for more t... Full Story
August 10, 2011 • By Nate Carlisle The Salt Lake Tribune
Utah's attorney general and Washington County's prosecutor on Tuesday said they will review evidence presented during the Texas trial of Warren Jeffs to determine if there are offenses that should be charged in the Beehive State.
At least ... Full Story
September 28, 2011 • The Associated Press
St. George • A judge in St. George has issued an arrest warrant for a man who once worked as a bodyguard for polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs.
The Spectrum reports that 42-year-old William R. Jessop is being sought for failing to appear Wednesday... Full Story
November 7, 2011 • Tribune And Wire Reports
San Angelo, Texas • A jury has found a former polygamous sect bishop guilty of presiding over the marriage of his 12-year-old daughter to leader Warren Jeffs.
A defense attorney for 75-year-old Merril Jessop argued the "sealing" wasn't a legal m... Full Story
November 9, 2011 • By Lindsay Whitehurst And Mark Havnes The Salt Lake Tribune
December 29, 2011 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
As Texas officials investigate whether he broke prison rules with a telephone sermon, prosecutors have filed a motion to delay a bigamy trial for polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs until late 2012.
Since Jeffs has no attorney and already is serving... Full Story
January 4, 2012 • By Peg Mcentee Tribune Columnist
Another year, another apocalypse in Short Creek.
From his Texas prison cell, Warren Jeffs has punished about 1,500 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by forbidding them from attending a main meetinghouse in Col... Full Story
January 21, 2012 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
The polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs has taken out apocalyptic quarter-page newspaper ads all over the country.
Labeled as a "Revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ Given to President Warren S. Jeffs," the ad reads in part: "Repent ye; now be of ful... Full Story
March 29, 2012 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
A Texas court dismissed Warren Jeffs' appeal Thursday as a jury prepared to sentence one of his former top lieutenants.
Acting as his own attorney, Jeffs filed almost no legal documents in the appeal of his sexual assault of a child conviction... Full Story
April 25, 2012 • The Polygamy Blog by Lindsay Whitehurst
Here are the "revelations from God" Warren Jeffs filed Tuesday with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest court. They're not ones we've seen mailed out before, but rather directed straight at the court.
Th... Full Story
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