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...heart of the legal battle are the 66 computers and 928 boxes of other evidence, including of a photo of former FLDS leader Warren Jeffs kissing his allegedly 12-year-old bride, that were seized during the April 2008 raid. Defense attorneys are trying to keep this evidence from being used in the trials because of the bizarre backstory now surrounding the search warrant. The warrant was based on tips from a Colorado woman who was posing as a former member of the compound and who is now facing criminal charges for filing a false report...
...Texas cases aren't the only legal woes facing the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Leading members of the Canadian branch of the FLDS, centered in Bountiful, British Columbia, are facing polygamy charges. The men have appealed to Canada's high court saying the law banning polygamy violates the country's freedom of religion clause. Winston Blackmore, the group's self-described "Bishop of Bountiful," is pleading poverty due to a downturn in the community's sawmill business and is asking the Canadian government to foot his million-dollar legal bill...
Financial problems also plague the American wing of the FLDS, according to Rod Parker, a Salt Lake City attorney and frequent spokesman for the Texas-based organization. He says his clients are "hemorrhaging a huge amount of money" fighting the morass of legal cases, including a long-running battle over an estimated $110 million property trust in Utah. The trust, which is named the United Effort Plan Trust, was set up by the polygamous sect's leadership in 1942 but was placed under court oversight in 2005, when allegations of mismanagement surfaced in several lawsuits brought by former FLDS members...
...tenet "live and let live," grew increasingly uneasy over time as strange stories of life within the settlement leaked out and found their way into the media, with accounts of a power struggle between Winston Blackmore, the sect's leader in Bountiful, and Warren Jeffs, the leader of the FLDS Church. Jeffs, now incarcerated in the U.S. for being an accomplice to rape, is facing charges in the aftermath of the raid on the polygamist Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado. (See pictures of two polygamist families...
...Senate majority leader Harry Reid, a practicing Mormon, claiming the FLDS church is guilty of tax fraud as well as child abuse...