4 incest charges against Warren Jeffs dropped

[proud2BlibKansan]

4 incest charges against Warren Jeffs dropped
By AMANDA LEE MYERS
Associated Press Writer

Douglas C. Pizac, File

An Arizona judge dropped four of eight charges against Warren Jeffs, even as authorities in Texas looked into whether the polygamist sect leader had relationships with four girls at the west Texas ranch raided in April.

Mohave County Superior Court Judge Steven Conn dismissed the charges at the request of the defense, finding that a state incest law does not apply to the arranged marriages of two teenage girls and their older male relatives.

Conn ruled the law only applies if both participants in the sexual activity are older than 18, and that the law does not apply to half cousins.

In both of the marriages Jeffs is accused of arranging, the girls were under 18 and were their husbands' half cousins. He was charged with incest as an accomplice.

http://www.kansascity.com/449/story/650551.html

[Vincardog]

1. Throw the incest charge because it was statutory rape? I loves me some TX justice.

[Hydra]

2. Man, these people can't be more guilty of everything imaginable

And yet, our justice system is defenseless against their overwhelming power! :sarcasm: