Kingman, AZ – A court hearing today will decide whether to send four remaining charges against polygamist leader Warren Jeffs back to an Arizona grand jury for reconsideration.
The charges stem from the arranged marriages of two teenage girls and their older male relatives.
Defense attorney Mike Piccarreta argues that Jeffs was denied a fair, impartial and unbiased grand jury, and that the prosecution presented false or misleading evidence to the grand jury.
Jeffs is jailed in Kingman where today's hearing is scheduled. He originally faced 10 charges in Arizona.
Four of the charges were dropped because Arizona's incest law doesn't apply to Jeffs' cases. Two others were dropped when the alleged victim refused to testify.