"Religion on trial" as polygamist case goes to jury
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - Attorneys for polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, on trial as an accomplice to rape, said on Friday "religion was on trial" and the state had overstepped its bounds in bringing the case.
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Jurors began deliberations Wednesday following closing arguments in the trial of a former priest accused of sexually molesting an altar boy, who shot the cleric on a city street a decade after the alleged abuse.
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The latest clash in the struggle among mainline Protestant denominations over gay clergy hits a critical point Wednesday with the church trial of a United Methodist Church minister who declared in a sermon last year that she is a lesbian living with her partner.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Scott Peterson&#39;s attorney is set to conclude his closing arguments later this morning. He&#39;ll try to convince the jury his client is a liar and a cheat, but not a murderer.
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Peterson case shows that jurors can make decisions based on personal demeanor.
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The jury in Scott Peterson&#39;s double-murder trial began deliberating this morning over whether Peterson killed his pregnant wife, Laci, and the couple&#39;s unborn son.
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The spurned husband whose arranged marriage is at the center of the rape-accomplice charges against polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs took the witness stand to defend his prophet on Wednesday.
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was found guilty of being an accomplice to rape by using his religious authority to push a 14-year-old girl into marriage. Elissa Wall, who testified about being a child wife, said after the verdict: "This has not been about religion or a vendetta. It was simply about child abuse."
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The polygamist "prophet" is found guilty of accessory to rape, a victory for a novel legal tactic focusing on child abuse
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A jury on Thursday began deliberating the fate of defrocked priest Paul Shanley, who is charged with raping a boy at his church outside Boston in the 1980s.
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Jurors made a mistake when they convicted Scott Peterson of planning and carrying out the murder of his eight-months pregnant wife, witnesses testified Monday at the former fertilizer salesman&#39;s double-murder trial.
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A story on Page C1 Tuesday misidentified the cPort Credit Union. It was a copy editor's error.  CLARIFICATION  A story on Page B1 Friday characterized the Mormon religion incompletely. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is considered a Christian faith.
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Even some of polygamist Warren Jeffs's critics are worried that his conviction is the start of a legal campaign against 'plural marriage.'
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Jurors neared a verdict before heading home Monday in the case against the leader of a polygamous sect who is accused of rape in the arranged marriage of a 14-year-old girl to her older cousin.
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A jury considers its verdict in the trial of a man accused of murdering his wife and hiding her body in a barrel.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - The leader of the largest U.S. polygamist sect who arranged a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin, told the girl it was her religious duty to give herself "mind, body and soul" to her husband, a Utah court heard on Thursday.
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Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday against polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who is accused of being an accomplice to rape for allegedly coercing a 14-year-old follower into a marriage she did not want.