The Utah Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned polygamist Warren S. Jeffs’ convictions on rape as an accomplice and sent his case back for a new trial, finding there were “serious errors” in instructions given to the jury that deprived Jeffs of a fair hearing.Unanimous. Let me repeat that so that it can sink in. The decision to vacate Jeffs' conviction was UNANIMOUS. Unambiguously unanimous.
The justices unanimously ruled 5th District Judge James Shumate erred when he rejected a defense request to instruct jurors that in order to convict they had to find Jeffs knew when he performed a 2001 marriage that unwanted sex would take place and intended for a rape to occur.
The wheels are falling off the witch hunt against the FLDS, it would appear. Good, says I. The whole effort on the part of the so-called "Justice" system has been driven by pure, raw bigotry, and nothing more.
It looks like the "Justice" system is running out of ways to persecute the FLDS and has effectively boxed itself into a corner. Let's hope this will result in the Texas FLDS men convicted in the aftermath of the YFZ raid being freed as well.
Continuing on the same general theme of the bigots who hate the FLDS. There was additional good news breaking just today. Flaming anti-FLDS bigot Ron in Houston (who, I believe, is the proprietor of FLDS Texas, the most virulently bigoted of all of the bigotry blogs) has been outed by the Pharisee. Only one thing would make me happier: for the Caput a Palos (TxBluesMan) to be outed.
It turns out that self-proclaimed smart guy Ron is a middling lawyer in Houston. By "middling", I'm implying that he's not very good or very reliable. Keep in mind that this is one of the people who accused me of being "not too bright".
Hey Ron! Sux when you can't call names and accuse real people of being pedophiles when you can't hide from the consequences, doesn't it.
Asshole.
