Attorneys for a polygamous sect leader convicted of rape by accomplice are asking a judge to set aside the jury's verdict, saying the evidence was insufficient and circumstantial at best.
"We think it's the wrong result," Wally Bugden told The Associated Press.
"Performing a marriage ceremony, urging people to stay in the marriage relationship, should not constitute the crime of rape," he said Tuesday.
A jury in September convicted Warren Jeffs, head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, for his role in the 2001 arranged marriage of a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin.
Jeffs faces …
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