A judge bars contact from FLDS spokesman

[grammybears]

Since I am so new at this please forgive for any mistakes I make.

This article comes from sltrib.com

It looks like Willie Jessop is up to the same issues of intimidating witness. Jessop tried to have contact with Warren Jeffs daughter to ask her to change attorneys. She said her attorney made untrue statement about her. Willie had threatened to get her a new attorney if she didn't. He also told her if she did not get a new attorney then he would get one for her.

This went before the judge, denied her request for a new attorney and had a subpeona done up to keep Jessop from her.

I can imagine this has really upset Jessop, but how can someone try to intimidate such a young girl. There is so much that is going on right now in Texas.It looks like the judge is a no nonsence person who is going to do everything she can to protect these kids.

[LiveLaughLuv]

Hope you don't mind Grammy I looked up that website and posted the article.

Witness
Texas judge bars contact from FLDS spokesman
Leave girl alone, judge tells FLDS spokesman
By Brooke Adams
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 06/21/2008 12:31:28 AM MDT


A Texas judge has temporarily barred an FLDS spokesman accused of intimidation from contacting a daughter of polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs.
Attorney Natalie Malonis, joined by guardian ad litem Connie Gauwain, filed a motion Friday asking for a restraining order against Willie Jessop.
Fifty-first District Judge Barbara Walther granted the request just before court closed. The judge also ordered Annette Jeffs, the girl's mother, to notify law enforcement if Jessop attempts to contact her. Walther set a hearing on the matter for next week.
Malonis and Gauwain allege that Jessop has intimidated and improperly influenced the 16-year-old girl, encouraging her to seek a new attorney and to avoid service of a subpoena to appear before a grand jury next week in Schleicher County.
On Thursday, the girl filed her own letter with Walther asking for a new attorney because Malonis has "made untrue statements about me and has tried to make me admit things that did not happen."
Malonis says in her motion the girl is a ''material witness with information relevant to a pending criminal investigation against certain male FLDS members.''
It also says that Malonis learned from Texas Child Protective Services and law enforcement that the girl had been spiritually sealed to an adult male just after she turned 15.

more at the link
http://www.sltrib.com/polygamy/ci_9655230

[grammybears]

no problem. I just wanted to make sure this information got out.

[TigressPen]

Here is another article on this topic.

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700236618,00.html