Each is charged with one count of polygamy at the trial. Marriage records presented in court Wednesday were obtained in 2008 when police raided the church’s Yearning for Zion Ranch in Texas. Nick Hanna, a Texas Ranger involved in seizing more than 700 boxes of evidence from the ranch, presented the marriage records in court. In addition to other documents, police seized marriage records from the fundamentalist ranch in Texas that numbered “in the high hundreds, if not over 1,000,” Hanna said. The judge-alone trial is expected to last at least two weeks and include testimony from Blackmore’s first wife, who is also Oler’s sister.

Source: National Post April 20, 2017 03:56 UTC