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October 17, 2012 • The Polygamy Blog by Lindsay Whitehurst
It doesn't look like I'm headed for San Angelo for trial coverage anytime soon.
Texas prosecutors officially dismissed the bigamy charge filed against Warren Jeffs, considering that his appeals are exhausted and he's set to be a cente... Full Story
October 9, 2012 • The Polygamy Blog by Lindsay Whitehurst
U.S. attorneys who filed a civil rights lawsuit against two polygamous towns are resisting a defense push to move the case to Utah.
The suit names both Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah, but it was filed in Phoenix.
The twin border towns ... Full Story
October 2, 2012 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
The Utah Supreme Court dealt a serious blow Tuesday to the polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs in an epic legal battle over its $114 million property trust.
The decision could void a landmark ruling handing the trust back to the sect and makes it m... Full Story
October 1, 2012 • The Polygamy Blog by Lindsay Whitehurst
The Utah Supreme Court will release a decision tomorrow that will almost certainly decide the fate of the polygamous sect property trust once controlled by Warren Jeffs.
This is kind of a big deal.
The state took over the trust in 2005 as Jeffs and... Full Story
September 28, 2012 • The Polygamy Blog by Lindsay Whitehurst
Government attorneys forcefully defended the state's right to outlaw polygamy today in their latest motion in the "Sister Wives" case.
(You may remember how they got slammed by the federal judge at the last hearing in this case).
Pointing to ab... Full Story
September 26, 2012 • The Polygamy Blog by Lindsay Whitehurst
A polygamy reporter hears from some interesting people.
Today, I had coffee with a German graduate student who's doing her master's thesis on —you guessed it — polygamy.
Fabia Krusenotto, who is 24 and studying at the University of Wuer... Full Story
September 22, 2012 • By Kirsten Stewart The Salt Lake Tribune
Draper • Meri Brown's presence Saturday at Holding Out Help's 5K fundraiser was tinged with controversy.
Holding Out Help assists people who are leaving polygamy. And Brown — one of four women married to reality TV star Kody Brown — not ... Full Story
September 19, 2012 • The Polygamy Blog by Lindsay Whitehurst
Department of Justice attorneys say their civil rights lawsuit against Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah, is plenty specific.
Their motions (read Hildale motion and Colorado City motion) come in response to a motion to dismiss filed by attorne... Full Story
September 17, 2012 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
Arizona prosecutors dropped trespassing charges Monday against an accountant appointed by a Utah judge to oversee a polygamous sect's communal property trust.
Bruce Wisan and employee Jethro Barlow were each facing six misdemeanor counts after a... Full Story
September 11, 2012 • The Polygamy Blog by Lindsay Whitehurst
Attorneys for Hildale and Colorado City, the polygamous towns dominated by followers of Warren Jeffs, want the federal civil rights suit filed against them moved to Utah.
They argue that it's a more convenient venue — the federal court in Arizo... Full Story
September 11, 2012 • The Polygamy Blog by Lindsay Whitehurst
A group of six men kicked out of the FLDS Bountiful settlement in Canada has gone to court to get access to their children, according to the Vancouver Sun.
That's a larger group than has gone to court in Utah (I've written about two, Lorin... Full Story
September 11, 2012 • The Associated Press
Colorado City, Ariz. • Attorneys defending a polygamous town on the Utah-Arizona border against allegations of civil rights violations want a change of venue.
A lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice in June claims that officials in Hildale,... Full Story
August 29, 2012 • The Polygamy Blog by Lindsay Whitehurst
It's been six years today since the news broke of Warren Jeffs' arrest late on the night of Aug. 28.
It was clearly a turning point for Jeffs, who had only officially taken over the leadership of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesu... Full Story
August 28, 2012 • The Polygamy Blog by Lindsay Whitehurst
Attorneys for the border community dominated by members of the polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs have moved to dismiss the sweeping civil rights suit filed in June by the federal government.
Their argument? It's not specific enough.
"Cert... Full Story
August 28, 2012 • The Associated Press
Attorneys for a pair of polygamous Utah-Arizona border towns are seeking dismissal of a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department that claimed officials are violating residents' civil rights.
The suit filed in federal court in Arizona in June... Full Story
August 23, 2012 • The Polygamy Blog by Lindsay Whitehurst
If you've been keeping up with FLDS news stories over the last couple of years, from the ban on sex to the hundreds of sect members tossed out of their homes in excommunications, a fair question might be: Why does anyone stick around?
This flier... Full Story
August 21, 2012 • The Polygamy Blog by Lindsay Whitehurst
David Darger and Jacob Barlow, who are facing misuse of public money charges in their respective roles as town manager and fire chief of Colorado City, have lost their attorneys.
An Arizona judge approved motions to withdraw Tuesday from their lawyer... Full Story
August 9, 2012 • The Polygamy Blog by Lindsay Whitehurst
It's been almost two months since Warren Jeffs had his followers sent out "revelations from God."
The last record I have of a packet received by the Utah Attorney General's Office was on June 12. Before that the revelations promis... Full Story
August 3, 2012 • The Polygamy Blog by Lindsay Whitehurst
A year almost to the day after 3rd District Judge Denise Lindberg first ruled that the state should pay $5.6 million in past-due bills associated with running the trust once controlled by Warren Jeffs, the Utah Supreme Court has made it official: Bru... Full Story
August 3, 2012 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
The state of Utah must help pay more than $5.5 million in past-due bills owed to an accountant appointed to run a polygamous sect's property trust after it was taken over by the state, the Utah Supreme Court decided Friday.
The high court unan... Full Story
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