Article: Utah judge with three wives removed from bench for violating bigamy law

Article: Utah Supreme Court to decide status of judge who has three wives ...
AP Worldstream;  November 2, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Provo. Utah's Judicial Conduct Commission issued an order seeking ... such had violated Utah's bigamy law. Bigamy is a third-degree ... knowing he's violating the bigamy law, he's taking the oath ... Winchester said. "And the conduct commission determined that they had ...

Article: Bigamy law debated
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  February 4, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... who practice plural marriage. Utah's bigamy law uses cohabitation, or living together ... said. This distinction could render the bigamy law useless unless a person seeks more than ... do if the court strikes down Utah's bigamy law. Shurtleff said he would accept the ...

Article: Utah's bigamy law upheld
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  May 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ...If it looks like a marriage and sounds like a marriage, then the polygamous marriage of former Hildale police officer Rodney Holm to his then-16-year-old bride did indeed run afoul of Utah's bigamy statute. That was the opinion of the majority of justices of the Utah Supreme Court in a politically

Article: Va. Man Eludes Trial In Twist of Bigamy Law; 6th ...
The Washington Post;  September 14, 2005 ;     700+ words ...It seems Virginia law may consider Charles Edward "Ed" Hicks to be like Larry King and Zsa Zsa Gabor -- a person who gets married a lot -- but not a bigamist, at least when it comes to his seventh and most recent wife. The revelation helped Hicks, 61, avoid trial on bigamy charges yesterday in

Article: American judge with three wives suspended
The Hindustan Times;  February 25, 2006 ;     397 words ... ... three sisters violate the state's bigamy law. The Supreme Court issued its ... saying it agreed with the Judicial Conduct Commission, which originally recommended ... the judge was violating Utah's bigamy law and turned the case over to the ...

Article: Polygamist judge ordered removed from bench in U.S.
AP Worldstream;  February 24, 2006 ;     523 words ... ... findings of the state's Judicial Conduct Commission, which recommended the removal ... for violating the state's bigamy law. Steed has served for 25 years ... receptionist at the Judicial Conduct Commission said neither the commission ...

Article: Polygamist Judge Ordered Off Utah Bench
AP Online;  February 25, 2006 ;     642 words ... ... findings of the state's Judicial Conduct Commission, which recommended the removal ... for violating the state's bigamy law. Steed has served for 25 years ... receptionist at the Judicial Conduct Commission said neither the commission ...