Jeffs daughter trying to dump court-appointed guardian

[madmusic]

SALT LAKE CITY — A daughter of convicted polygamist leader Warren Jeffs says she doesn't need protection from church leaders and wants her court-appointed attorney to step down for asking for it.

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Jeffs denies her attorney's contentions that she was forced into a spiritual marriage at 15 with an older man and that she has a baby.

"Natalie, quit all your lying about everything," Jeffs said in a letter she released to The AP. She asked Malonis to "let me get a different lawyer."

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5850853.html

[Wizard777]

1. That's going to be an interesting grand jury proceedure.

A lawyer having to handle her own client as a hostile witness. Oooookay.

[Wizard777]

2. I wonder where the attorney got this from?

"Jeffs denies her attorney's contentions that she was forced into a spiritual marriage at 15 with an older man and that she has a baby."

If she actually did tell her attorney that. For her attorney to divulge that to ANYONE without her permission is a violation of attorney client privilege. Ms. Malonis not only needs to be replaced she needs to be disbarred.

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. That is public information, from the charging papers against Warren Jeffs

That allegation is what got Jeffs arrested in the first place.

[Wizard777]

4. The lawyer says she got the information from CPS and law enorcement.

I don't think this is the same girl the sent Jeffs to jail over. It's his daughter.

[FreeState]

5. Correct it was not his daughter - it was Elissa Wall

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Jeffs

In June 2005, Jeffs was charged with sexual assault on a minor and with conspiracy to commit sexual misconduct with a minor for allegedly arranging, in 2002, a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old half first cousin. The girl, known as "Jane Doe IV" (Elissa Wall)<21> testified that she begged "Uncle Rulon" to let her wait until she was older, or choose another man for her. Rulon Jeffs was apparently "sympathetic", but Warren Jeffs was not, and she was forced to go through with the marriage. The 14-year-old alleged that her new husband raped her repeatedly, starting on their wedding night. She eventually left her husband and is now married to another man.<22> Jeffs faced the above charges in Mohave County, Arizona. In July 2005, the Arizona Attorney General's office distributed wanted posters offering $10,000 for information leading to Jeffs' arrest and conviction.

[Wizard777]

6. What's a "half first cousin"?

[FreeState]

7. Half Cousin defined:)

Half Cousin
First cousins are the children of siblings; therefore, half first cousins would be the children of half siblings. Half-cousins would have one common grandparent instead of two common grandparents.

http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/cousincalculator.html

[Wizard777]

8. That's what I thought. But I wasn't entirely sure. Thank You.