State asks for rehearing in Jeffs case

Posted on August 23, 2010, 3:47 pm, by Brooke, under Warren Jeffs.

Here is the request filed by the state of Utah for reconsideration in the Utah Supreme Court’s reversal of polygamous church leader Warren S. Jeffs’ convictions.

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4 Comments

  1. duaneh1 says:
    August 23, 2010 at 6:23 pm

    I’m confused, now the DA is saying that since Elissa Wall was 14 and Allen Steed was more than 3 years older, then Allen Steed raped her even if Elissa was willing. Well, then Allen’s conviction should have been a no-brainer. I heard that the jury was given instructions that with respect to the charge of rape, Elissa could consent. So what gives?

  2. MA_Matriarch says:
    August 23, 2010 at 8:17 pm

    Waste of taxpayers money……

  3. MA_Matriarch says:
    August 23, 2010 at 9:28 pm

    Nothing can be done to change what has happened in the past. The victim has moved on. Locking up Warren Jeffs is not going to change the beliefs of a culture.

    I can guarantee that the more this culture is pushed the more secretive it will become. The state is working against itself. This whole ordeal is a COMPLETE waste of taxpayers time and money.

  4. Rebeckah says:
    August 25, 2010 at 11:46 pm

    “Nothing can be done to change what has happened in the past. The victim has moved on. Locking up Warren Jeffs is not going to change the beliefs of a culture.”

    The victim has “moved on”? The victim is ready and willing to participate in a retrial. She is, by her own words, still invested in this. Where do you get that she has “moved on”?

    And this whole ordeal hasn’t been a complete waste of taxpayers time and money for those girls who have been spared underage marriage and childbirth because of it.

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