Item Detail
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8353
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English
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Lorenzo Snow's Appellate Court Victory
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Winter 1990
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58
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81-93
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In an effort to give Mormon polygamists longer prison sentences, Territorial District Judge Charles S. Zane devised a prosecutorial theory of segregation by which prosecutors could rack up life sentences on polygamists for the misdemeanor crime of unlawful cohabitation. Under the segregation theory, unlawful cohabitation became a continuous offense. Lorenzo Snow contested this segregation theory before the U.S. Supreme Court, who decided on February 7, 1987 that there was no case law support for the kind of prosecutorial theory which the territorial courts had tried to apply to Snow. This decision brought a major shift in the Mormon strategy in which the Church policy of hiding on the underground was abandoned. Polygamists thereafter increasingly emerged from the underground and submitted to imprisonment for civil disobedience.
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Beyond the Manifesto : Polygamous Cohabitation among LDS General Authorities after 1890
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'Hide and Seek' : Children on the Underground
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Mormon Polygamous Families : Life in the Principle
Mormon Polygamy : A History
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Polygamy and the Right to Marry : New Life for an Old Lifestyle
Prophet of Blood : The Untold Story of Ervil LeBaron and the Lambs of God
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'The Goose Hangs High' : Excerpts from the Letters of Martha Hughes Cannon
The Mormon Disfranchisements of 1882 to 1892
The Presidents of the Church
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