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Cult leader Warren Jeffs' attorneys argue sect leader faced wrong charge
Texas judge limits some records in FLDS trial over polygamy references
Italian judge convicts 23 in CIA kidnapping of Muslim cleric
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Cult leader Warren Jeffs' attorneys argue sect leader faced wrong charge

Cult leader Warren Jeffs' attorney, Walter Bugden Jr., said the state could have charged Jeffs with performing an illegal marriage, but instead decided to charge an unpopular religious figure with a serious crime that didn't fit the facts of the case.

Note that Jeffs -- notorious for his ruthlessness -- told the girl in question she would lose her salvation if she did not obey.

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Texas judge limits some records in FLDS trial over polygamy references

Defense attorney Mark Stevens argued that much of the content of the documents, mostly marriage records or dictations made by Warren S. Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, are extraneous, prejudicial and not relevant to the crime charged to Jessop because they refer to polygamy.

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Italian judge convicts 23 in CIA kidnapping of Muslim cleric

MILAN — An Italian judge says he has convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street in a CIA extraordinary rendition, AP reports.

The American suspects — all but one identified by prosecutors as CIA agents — are being tried in absentia and are considered fugitives.