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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
SAN ANGELO — The West Texas judge who has presided over the investigation and trials of a polygamist sect has been replaced for this month’s bigamy trial of a former lieutenant to sect leader Warren Jeffs.
In a terse court order, the presiding judge of the 7th Administrative Judicial Region ordered senior Judge Robert Moore of Big Spring to replace state District Judge Barbara Walther for the trial of Wendell Loy Nielsen, the San Angelo Standard-Times reported.
The order gave no reason for the change, and Walther declined to comment, the newspaper reported.
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