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FLDS to target state bigamy laws » Standard-Times

SAN ANGELO, Texas — Attorneys for Wendell Loy Nielsen, the next member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to go to criminal trial, said at a hearing Tuesday they intend to challenge the Texas bigamy laws their client is charged with violating under amended indictments.

The pretrial hearing Tuesday in San Angelo before 51st District Judge Barbara Walther set a trial date of Oct. 25 in Schleicher County. Nielsen, 69, faces three charges of bigamy, to which he pleaded not guilty.

The prosecution amended the indictments to more closely reference Texas laws on bigamy, and the defense, headed by Houston attorney Kent Schaffer, said it would challenge the constitutionality of those amendments and thus the Texas bigamy laws in general. A hearing was set for that matter to take place Sept. 13.
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TurboK9

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And of course, had this case gone to trial a year ago, they would have just taken their lumps and not put forth any challenge of the law? :rolleyes:

Of course they are challenging it. It's a defense tactic by a defense attorney.
 
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