Read Warren Jeffs" Revelations to Texas High Court

By Lindsay Whitehurst
Salt Lake Tribune
April 26, 2012

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogspolygblog/53990792-191/court-jeffs-revelations-appeals.html.csp

Here are the "revelations from God" Warren Jeffs filed Tuesday with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest court. They're not ones we've seen mailed out before, but rather directed straight at the court.

This about a month after the appeal of his sexual assault of a child conviction was dismissed from the Third Court of Appeals because he didn't do anything with it.

In the new filing, Jeffs, who is acting as his own attorney, tells us he decided to skip the lower court and go straight to the top. He wants the judges to drop all the charges and let all the FLDS men in prison go free, especially Merril Jessop (who he seems quite concerned about these days.)

The revelation threatens God's "full whirlwind judgements" if it doesn't happen.

It looks like he purposely decided to skip the lower appeals court a long time ago; the revelations were written in November and December, long before the Third Court deadlines lapsed.

Setting aside for the moment that the revelations aren't exactly legal documents, the high court doesn't tend to look to favorably on a defendant skipping steps, Texas appellate attorney and Baylor University professor Greg White told me for this story about the dismissal of Jeffs' appeal.