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Jeffs' lawyers to ask judge to restrict some evidence
A federal judge will be asked today to consider whether some of the evidence seized when Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs was arrested last year should be declared "protected" under his First Amendment right to freedom of religion.
"These sacred revelations are at the core of the group's religious beliefs and they cannot be shared with outsiders," Jeffs' defense attorney Walter Bugden Jr. wrote in an emergency motion filed in March.
Lawyers for the FLDS leader want the documents sealed and reviewed behind closed doors to determine who gets to see them. Jeffs' lawyers also want to keep the papers from being seen by lawyers for the United Effort Plan Trust (the financial arm of the FLDS Church), which is under court control amid allegations Jeffs and other top FLDS leaders fleeced it.
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"The fiduciary is informed and believes Mr. Jeffs and the other removed trustees refuse to recognize this court's authority and the appointment of the fiduciary and continue to operate as de facto trustees," fiduciary lawyer Jeffrey L. Shields wrote in court papers obtained by the Deseret Morning News on Wednesday.
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