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...down and prices follow. Sellers are stubborn, so there's a standoff." Lereah says he'll probably cut his forecast for price growth from 5% to 4% this year. It could be worse, but in certain mid-tier markets--like Cincinnati, Ohio; Dallas; Milwaukee, Wis.; Salt Lake City, Utah--prices didn't appreciate as quickly as in the hot zones, and aren't likely to fall as fast. In places like Phoenix, Ariz., Las Vegas and Los Angeles, epicenters of the boom, look out below...
...with the success of the Fischer prosecution, Arizona and Utah authorities hope that other polygamy-abuse cases in the pipeline can be tried without victim testimony, including seven other men from the FLDS community scheduled to stand trial. This is the largest group to be prosecuted for crimes related to their polygamist lifestyle since the 1950s...
...eyewitness accounts of Fischer and the girl's "flirtatious behavior." But the verdict was unusual - and, to critics of the alleged abuses in polygamous marriages, especially significant - in that it came without the testimony of the alleged victims. In the FLDS community that populates the twin towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., finding victims willing to speak out is rare. "The nature of this community is opposed to the crimes themselves," explains Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff. "Victims have been taught from the cradle up not to cooperate with the outside or to disagree with their leaders...
...practice of polygamy. But unlike other polygamy groups, FLDS members unquestionably follow the directives of a single leader or "prophet." Currently, that position is being held by Warren Jeffs, a fugitive wanted on the same charges as Fischer in Arizona and as a rape-as-an-accomplice charge in Utah. The estimated 6,000 to 11,000 FLDS members in the U.S. follow Jeff's "revelations," which dictate who should marry whom and when. A series of these "revelations" two years ago resulted in the exile of an estimated 200 "unworthy" men from the FLDS community; their wives and children...
...Star is sharp and addictive, with a memorable cast that includes a pair of ebullient twins, a loopy artist, a tense Janeane Garofalo look-alike and a 30-year-old single mom who, I'm certain, was chosen for her design talent and not because she was once Miss Utah U.S.A...