Word: belnap
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...publicly revealed her identity on the last day of the trial, as "no shrinking violet" and her husband, first cousin Allen Steed as a "milquetoast," not a rapist. She had flirted and enticed her husband, Bugden said. It was an old, familiar tactic in rape cases. But prosecutor Brock Belnap won the day by arguing that what Jeffs did by urging the two to "go forth and multiply" was no different from sacrificing a young virgin for the harvest - a religious belief, but a criminal act. "This trial has not been about religion and a vendetta," Walls said...