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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLawyer: Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has mental breakdown
Source: Associated Press
Lawyer: Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has mental breakdown
By BRADY McCOMBS
August 12, 2019
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Imprisoned polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has suffered a mental breakdown and isnt fit to give a deposition in a sex abuse case against him, according to a recent court filing.
Forcing Jeffs to testify would be futile, said lawyers representing a community trust that once belonged to a polygamous sect run by Jeffs on the Utah-Arizona border.
The trust and Jeffs were sued in 2017 by a woman who says she was sexually abused by Jeffs when she was a child.
The trust has received reports that Warren Jeffs has suffered a mental breakdown, and there seems to be a high likelihood that Warren Jeffs is not mentally competent to provide admissible testimony, lawyer Zachary Shields wrote in the July 8 filing.
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By BRADY McCOMBS
August 12, 2019
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Imprisoned polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has suffered a mental breakdown and isnt fit to give a deposition in a sex abuse case against him, according to a recent court filing.
Forcing Jeffs to testify would be futile, said lawyers representing a community trust that once belonged to a polygamous sect run by Jeffs on the Utah-Arizona border.
The trust and Jeffs were sued in 2017 by a woman who says she was sexually abused by Jeffs when she was a child.
The trust has received reports that Warren Jeffs has suffered a mental breakdown, and there seems to be a high likelihood that Warren Jeffs is not mentally competent to provide admissible testimony, lawyer Zachary Shields wrote in the July 8 filing.
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Lawyer: Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has mental breakdown (Original Post)
Eugene
Aug 2019
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GReedDiamond
(5,313 posts)1. "Mental breakdown"...how convenient for the old perv...nt
marble falls
(57,112 posts)2. Good. Stick him into a straight jacket until he dies.
chowder66
(9,074 posts)3. Uh huh.
ret5hd
(20,501 posts)4. Man, your lawyers SUCK compared to Epsteins!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)5. So Jeff is playing the Courts once again.
Nothing surprising for those who have followed this case.
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)6. Oh, Sweet Jesus!
I am so sick of all these frauds and fakers.
Takket
(21,578 posts)7. I'd like to hear that from a psychiatrist, not a lawyer.