Court hands defeat on polygamy to family from 'Sister Wives'

Court hands defeat on polygamy to family from 'Sister Wives'

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal appeals cloister on Monday absolved a battleground accommodation that decriminalized polygamy in Utah, appearance a acknowledged defeat for the ancestors from the absoluteness TV appearance "Sister Wives."

Kody Brown and his four wives cannot sue the accompaniment over its ban on plural marriages because the ancestors never faced accuse and prosecutors afterwards said they would not arraign acknowledging adults with assorted wives, the 10th U.S. Circuit Cloister of Appeals in Denver ruled.

The accommodation reverses a 2013 cardinal that removed the blackmail of arrest for polygamous families. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups had begin that the blackmail of case alone collection the Browns out of the accompaniment and that key locations of Utah's bigamy law alone their appropriate to aloofness and religious freedom.

Utah Advocate Accepted Sean Reyes appealed Waddoups' ruling. The accompaniment has a longstanding action adjoin prosecuting acknowledging developed polygamists, but prosecutors argued that the ban should break on the books to advice authorities go afterwards polygamists who accomplish added crimes, such as animal assault, approved abduction and corruption of government benefits.

Prosecutors aswell acicular to confined baton Warren Jeffs, who was bedevilled of assaulting arrears girls he advised wives.

The Browns said added laws abide to ambition crimes affiliated to plural marriages and that banning the convenance can sow disbelief of authority. They say their appearance is affirmation that polygamous unions can be as advantageous as austere marriages.

Bigamy, or captivation assorted alliance licenses, remained actionable amidst the acknowledged fight. Brown has a authorization for alone one of his marriages and says his added unions are spiritual.

There are about 30,000 polygamists in Utah, according to cloister documents. They accept polygamy brings acclaim in heaven — a bequest of the aboriginal Mormon church. The boilerplate Abbey of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints alone the convenance in 1890 and carefully prohibits it today.

The Browns' advocate and the accompaniment advocate accepted did not anon accept comment.

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