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	Trial for Polygamist Delayed By Jim Seckler Mohave Daily News [Kingman NV] January 11, 2007 http://www.mohavedailynews.com/articles/2007/01/12/news/top_story/top1.txt Kingman - Wednesday's trial for a Colorado City polygamist charged with having sexual relations with an underage girl has been postponed indefinitely. Rodney Holm's trial before Superior Court Judge Steven Conn was postponed with no new date scheduled. Holm, 40, a former Colorado City police officer and one of eight defendants who belong to a controversial polygamist sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Colorado City, is charged with three counts of sexual conduct with a minor. Another codefendant, Randy Barlow, 33, is charged with two counts of sexual conduct with a minor. He had also been charged with two counts of sexual assault but those charges were dismissed. No trial date has been set in his case. The third remaining codefendant, Dale Evans Barlow, 49, is charged with one count of sexual conduct with a minor and one count of conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. His trial before Conn has also not been rescheduled. David Romaine Bateman, 49, was convicted in October of sexual conduct with a minor and conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. He was sentenced Dec. 18 to nine months in state prison and must register as a sex offender. Also on Dec. 18, Vergel Bryce Jessop, 47, pleaded no contest to an undesignated charge of child abuse. He had been charged with one count of sexual conduct with a minor and conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. Under the plea agreement, Jessop will be sentenced Tuesday to probation for three years with no additional jail time. If he completes his probation, the felony charge will be designated as a misdemeanor. Conn will also decide if Jessop must register as a sex offender. Charges against Terry Darger Barlow were recently dropped. Barlow, 25, was charged with one count of sexual conduct with a minor and conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. Kelly Fischer, 39, was the first codefendant to be tried and convicted of one count of sexual conduct with a minor and one count of conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. Fischer was sentenced in August to 45 days in county jail and probation. In September, a Mohave County jury acquitted Donald Robert Barlow, 50, of one count of sexual conduct with a minor. The church's leader, Warren Jeffs, currently faces rape charges in Utah. He is also charged in Mohave County with five counts of sexual conduct with a minor and two counts of conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor.
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