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	Arrest Warrant Issued for Jessop By Matthew Waller San Angelo Standard-Times September 30, 2011 http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2011/sep/30/arrest-warrant-issued-for-jessop/ A former spokesman for a polygamist sect has a warrant out for his arrest after not appearing in court. Willie Jessop was scheduled for a Wednesday hearing about a civil suit that he filed against Sam Brower, said 5th District Court staff in Utah. Brower is a private investigator who has done research digging up information about the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Jessop had been a spokesman for the sect. Jessop owed Brower legal expenses after the court said Jessop had subjected Brower to frivolous court filings, according to The Spectrum, a newspaper in St. George, Utah. The record was made to reflect that Jessop had failed to appear twice on the matter and the arrest warrant was issued from the bench. Jessop was in Switzerland at the time of the hearing. Another hearing for Jessop has been set for Nov. 23, clerk staff said. Jessop wasn't in the courtroom with Brower, but he has been on television with him this week on the "Dr. Phil" program. On the program, Jessop tried to distance himself from Warren Jeffs, the head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Jeffs received a sentence of life plus 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting two girls ages 12 and 15. Jessop has said he was wrong in defending Jeffs in the past and that the entire FLDS community needs to take responsibility for allowing Jeffs to lead the church. Jeffs still rules the church from his incarceration, sources in and out of the FLDS have said, though with help from his free brothers.
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