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The leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group was convicted Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin.Warren Jeffs, 51, could get life in prison after a trial that threw a spotlight on a renegade community along the Arizona-Utah line where as many as 10,000 of Jeffs followers practice plural marriage and revere him as a mighty prophet with dominion over their salvation.Jeffs stood and, like his 15 followers in the courtroom, wore a stoic look as the verdict was read.Prosecutors said Jeffs, who performed the ceremony, forced the girl into marriage and sex against her
stanley uk will. Jurors said they agreed Jeffs rejected the girl s pleas and refused to release her from the marriage. He was pretty much her only ticket out of the relationship, said juror Jerry Munk, 36. Defense attorney Wally Bugden, who told jurors that Jeffs was a victim of religious pe
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