No FLDS appeared in the courtroom Wednesday. 3 for a two-day hearing to hear testimony from FLDS members and government witnesses to determine whether defendants have a religious right to share their food stamp benefits. Jeffs’ attorney, Kathryn Nester, declined to comment Wednesday.Īl Hartmann | The Salt Lake TribuneMembers of the FLDS Church walk to Federal Court in Salt Lake City Tuesday Oct. “We’re not out to punish people with sincerely held beliefs. “We‘re not out to punish people of faith,” Huber said. Jeffs, meanwhile, was accused of eating steak and fish. Huber maintained Wednesday that the FLDS effort to combine and convert SNAP benefits - which prosecutors said amounted to $12 million in fraud - took food from hungry people. Speaking to reporters outside the federal courthouse in Salt Lake City, Huber said he did not want to call the plea agreement a “deal,” but rather a “compromise.” He noted both sides won and lost motions in recent weeks that would have determined what jurors were allowed to hear about the case. Jeffs is facing federal charges in what prosecutors call a multimillion-dollar food-stamp fraud scheme as well as his escape from home confinement. 20, 2017, in an escape and food-stamp fraud cases, in federal court in Salt Lake City. Jeffs, a polygamous sect leader recaptured after a year on the run in a fraud case, pleaded guilty Wednesday, Sept. Huber speaks outside the federal courthouse Wednesday, Sept.
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