"I feel personally confidant that we'll be able to seat a fair jury and that Washington County jurors can be fair and unbiased," Belnap said, noting the same argument was raised during Jeffs' trial.

Bradshaw raised the specter of that trial in his letter, noting that if Wall had written her book and entertained a publicity tour before Jeffs' trial began, "there would have been great outrage about her compromising the integrity of that process.

"Mr. Steed is entitled to no less justice because your office opted to not proceed against him until after the Jeffs trial was completed," Bradshaw writes.

Wall also filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the FLDS Church and Jeffs, who is facing additional charges of sexual misconduct and incest in an Arizona court. Wall is a witness in one of those cases.

Attorneys for Jeffs have asked a judge to dismiss the incest charges. A hearing on the matter is scheduled in a Mohave County, Ariz., court on Friday.

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