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Judge won't be booted from FLDS case

Death threats!! Oh,no! as I search frantically through the article to find out "who has made them"? Surely the violent FLDS have threatened to kill her, but no "she doesn't know who made them". Maybe it was her husband and family that don't like her anymore since she is loosing her credibility, and her career as a lawyer.

The Texans are really playing this whole thing for all it's worth.

Regardless of their effort to spin themselves into being the victims in the situation, they have no one to blame but themselves for a bogus raid, kangaroo court hearing, false imprisonment, judicial slap-down, and sham lawyer representation.

They should put Walther out to pasture before she marches herself into club fed.

I read through the e-mails that were sent to the attorney and I really doubt that the 16 year old girl wrote them.From listening to all the women that was interviewed on TV --they did not talk like the girl is supposed to be writing and it gets to being--hey you can't believe anyone on either side.I am so glad that I have no part in any of the decisions that will have to be made.Just please everyone take care of all the children .

You listen to the women talk, and that doesn�t sound like the writing of a teenager? Are you kidding?

Any attorney could file a friend of the court brief and ask that this "Wacko" judge recuse herself from hearing these cases involving the FLDS. Stillfurther, an attorney could file a complaint with the Texas State Bar requesting a thorough investigation into wrongdoing on the part of this court-appointed attorney.

This couldn't be GRANDSTANDING could it? It's so unlike a lawyer to do such a thing. Now is this the same boogy-man bodyguard the judge had? Or is this an entirely new one? Is the lawyer paying the costs herself or is this another way to drain off excess texas-taxes?

is probably doing her best to represent the interests of the child. if the child was "spiritually married" at 15, it seems worthy of investigation.

Anyone could have issued these death threats. Given what certain FLDS members have done in Utah it could be them, but it could also be someone who wants to make the FLDS look bad. Then, there seems to be a lot of third-party interest in this case, so anyone who thinks he has been wronged by the government or who identifies with the FLDS could have issued the threats.

All I can say about this is that when your kind heart motivates you to do charitable work, pick your tasks carefully. Volunteering to provide free legal counsel to the FLDS may bring you death threats, and being on a school board or town counsel will keep you up all night.

I think the death threats will convince the judge that she is on the right course in issuing the restraining order. There are a few people within the FLDS who have a history of aggressive behavior and Willie Jessop is one of them. The death threats indicate that this battle is about something much larger than allowing this girl to write a letter to her father. This girl does need a functioning client-attorney relationship for tomorrow.

What is that bound so tightly over your eyes?
Not a veil of tears
A tissue of lies

Too bad polygamy lovers, you won't get away with all of it.

//I think the death threats will convince the judge that she is on the right course in issuing the restraining order.//

That may be so, but without any idea as to where the death threats came from, or whether they're sincere or a prank, then how can she rationally arrive at that conclusion?

Between the judges bodyguards and the Malonis bodyguards the FLDS crew may need a few bodyguards to keep Teresa and her lawyer from having a spat.

no one is being charged with polygamy and no one will be.

Re:Gal50; Must work for CPS. How does she know that the death threats are from the FLDS,or if they are even real, for that matter.
We are talking about an agency that lied on every aspect of this case. Again, they play the sympathy, for the CPS card.

"Too bad polygamy lovers, you won't get away with all of it."
Sounds enough of a threat to get the FLDS each their own bodyguards.

Talking about FLDS Blogs, I thought this was a FLDS Blog. Most of the posts here appear to come from the FLDS. Check out the DVD from your library called "Banking on Heaven: Polygamy in the Heartland of the American West". It's a real eye-opener. Has interviews with Carolyn Jessop, Flora Jessop, and even Warren Jeff's sister. I see little difference between Warren Jeffs and Jim Jones or David Koresh.

I don't work for CPS and never would. In my particular state, I've overlooked a few neglected children because they were probably better off without CPS in their lives.

Readers don't have to take sides. It not like CPS is Godlike and the FLDS is devil-like or vice-versa. There is a lot of gray in this story along with the black.

I didn't say the death threats are from the FLDS. They could as easily be from someone on the outside who wants to make the FLDS look bad. That's what the phone call seemed to be about.

What I did say is that the death threats do not help the FLDS shake off this latest restraining order especially since there is documentation showing that Willie Jessop can be hostile to the law and court proceedings. You have a judge looking at a lot of lawlessness and she is going to want to control it a bit better.

That being said, I still feel the Jeff's girl is being victimized. I am hopeful that her guardian ad litem can appear in court with her tomorrow and that someone can advise her as to the nature of her testimony.

Come on, admit it. Some of you would like to see Malonis dead.

We need to get rid of FLDS polygamy and Gay people getting married. These two large moral issues need to come to an end! It's time to clean up the USA.

It is obvious that many of the blogs here are from FLDS members.

Anyone who knows anything about the FLDS, and how they operate, knows that these girls and women are being completely controlled and manipulated. This cult clearly has completely lost the principle of personal moral agency (free agency) and the teachings of Joseph Smith. They also think it is perfectly acceptable to lie when it's expedient.

Joseph Smith counseled the Saints to "stay with the main body of the Church. That's where the truth will be." Unfortunately, men with big egos, lust for power and out-of-control sex drive left the truth and have misguided and controlled these poor people for many decades.

Warren Jeffs now has publicly confessed that he is NOT a prophet, he NEVER WAS and he is one of the most wicked men of this dispensation. I think we should take him at his word! Willie Jessop and the others are no better. I hope these people will now have the courage to see what their leaders really are. You have the right to be free. YOU DON'T HAVE TO FOLLOW FALSE PROPHETS ANY LONGER!