SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Lawyers for polygamy sect leader Warren Jeffs have appealed their client's convictions of being an accomplice to rape.

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, imprisoned as an accomplice in the rape of a teenage congregation member, is asking a Utah judge for a new trial.

ST. GEORGE, Utah, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Warren Jeffs, the leader of a polygamous sect, was sentenced to two consecutive 5 years-to-life terms in Utah for forcing a 14-year-old girl into marriage.

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Lawyers for polygamist leader Warren Jeffs have filed a motion asking a St. George, Utah, judge to overturn a recent rape-as-an-accomplice conviction.

ST. GEORGE, Utah, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Allen G. Steed, the ex-husband of the woman at the center of a Utah polygamy trial, has been charged with one count of rape.

ST. GEORGE, Utah, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs was convicted of two counts of rape by accessory by a Utah jury Tuesday.