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  Shurtleff Deposition Set in Child-Bride Suit

By Ben Winslow
Deseret News
May 12, 2008

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700225372,00.html

Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff will give a deposition in a former child bride's multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the Fundamentalist LDS Church and its leader, Warren Jeffs.

Shurtleff confirmed to the Deseret News on Monday that he will be deposed later this month in connection with Elissa Wall's personal injury lawsuit.

"They wanted to ask me about a meeting I had in August 2002, when a bunch of representatives of the FLDS tried to talk me out of going forward on investigations of child-bride cases," Shurtleff said Monday. "I don't know how the meeting I had comes into play, but that's what I was told they wanted to ask me about."

Wall's attorney, Roger Hoole, declined to say why exactly he needed the attorney general's testimony.

"It's going to be a very short deposition," he told the Deseret News. "I need to establish one point."

 
 

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