Sect teen still looks to drop lawyer

While a grand jury in Schleicher County deliberated over possible criminal charges against members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the attorney for one of the children in the case was attempting to keep her client. Teresa Jeffs, 16, filed a motion in Schleicher County court, according to a story in the Salt Lake Tribune, seeking to have her court-appointed attorney, Natalie Malonis, dismissed. The motion, the paper said, included allusions to Malonis' personal life, including a divorce, to argue that the Flower Mound lawyer was unsuited to represent Jeffs. "I don't know what my divorce has to do with Teresa's custody case," Malonis told the Standard-Times on Tuesday. Referring to the motion, she said, "It's not accurate, and it's a ridiculous tactic." Jeffs had earlier made an unsuccessful... [read full story]