Bigamy charges against polygamist leader Warren Jeffs dropped

August 2011 file photo provided by Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows polygamist leader Warren Jeffs in Huntsville, Texas / AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice

AUSTIN, Texas The Texas attorney general's office has dropped bigamy charges against imprisoned polygamist leader Warren Jeffs.

Attorney general's spokesman Jerry Strickland said Wednesday that the motion to dismiss charges was filed this week in San Angelo.

Prosecutors cited the need for judicial economy, noting that Jeffs is already serving a life prison sentence.

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Jeffs is confined to an East Texas prison for sexually assaulting two underage girls he considered his brides. The charges followed the 2008 raid at the remote West Texas ranch that's home to followers of his Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

The 56-year-old Jeffs isn't eligible for parole until he's at least 100 years old.

Strickland says the Jeffs investigation has been difficult on the community and for the local judicial system.

[eroteme2]

Should additional charges be dropped? Probably not, he will be now be elgible for parole when he reaches 100. When we want to get someone we get them.

[PatriotFreedom]

Talk about identity theft:
The fundamentalist church of L.D.S. is a splinter group off of a splinter group off a splinter group that came away from the main body of the LDS church. Those folks have roots in groups that broke away from my (Yes I'm L.D.S) church in the 1890's. Then they had the gall to give themselves a name almost IDENTICAL to the original church they broke away from. The simple name similarity can be very misleading to those who are ignorant.

Unfortunately, I have personally witnessed news organizations ignore the identity theft which has led to even member of my own congregation getting confused. Once I have even had to correct a lady in my own congregation that our own church was NOT the same as that group down in Texas.
So you news organizations have the responsibility to print the truth in your reporting: for which ultimately you will be accountable before God.

Anyways, that group in Texas are vile reprobates and make every knowledgeable member of my church disgusted.

[kbbpll]

Nice try, but you don't seem to mention that the Mormon-controlled state of Utah has ignored child sex trafficking and massive welfare fraud by this group of around 10,000 people for decades. It took Texas to finally prosecute. Look up the excellent article on this whole affair on the High Country News website. Mainstream Mormons look the other way and regard this as a "lifestyle choice". You may be personally disgusted, but certainly your elected officials are not. (Although it appears your main concern is "identity theft"). And this is not a "group in Texas". Their main base is still Hildale UT/Colorado City AZ.

[TJ Spyke]

So it sounds like they only dropped the charge because they don't want to waste taxpayer money on a trial for it considering he is already serving a life sentence (so it wouldn't make a difference in how long he is in jail).

[Tina900]

He deserves to be in ajil forever and to pay for the court proceedings out of pocket. Slime Pedophile.