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In this March 27, 2014, file photo, Lorin Holm, an exiled member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, looks on as video of a deposition of FLDS Church leader Warren Jeffs is played for the court during a custody hearing between Holm and his two ex-wives who still belong to the FLDS Church in 5th District Court in St. George, Utah. Several men exiled from Warren Jeffs' polygamous sect are warning a judge that requiring a man to pay his ex-wives' attorney fees after winning a recent custody suit would have a chilling effect on others who have been kicked out and want their children back. (AP Photo/The Spectrum & Daily News, Jud Burkett, Pool, File)
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Lorin Holm, an exiled member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, gestures over his shoulder to friends in the gallery as the jailhouse confession in which FLDS Church leader Warren Jeffs admits that he is not and never was a prophet during a custody hearing between Holm and his two ex-wives who still belong to the FLDS Church in 5th District Court in St. George, Utah Thursday, March 27, 2014. Holm's attorneys have argued that the mothers of Holm's children should be denied custody due to the possible influence that Warren Jeffs, who was sentenced to life in prison by a Texas court in 2011 for sexually assaulting two underage girls whom he had taken as spiritual wives, might have over the children. (AP Photo/The Spectrum & Daily News, Jud Burkett, Pool)
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Seated next to her attorney, Rodney Parker, Lynda Peine, right, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, looks away from the monitor moments before she stepped out of the courtroom as the video recording of the jailhouse confession in which FLDS Church leader Warren Jeffs admits that he is not and never was a prophet is played during a custody hearing between Peine and her ex-husband, Lorin Holm, who was excommunicated from the church, in 5th District Court in St. George, Utah Thursday, March 27, 2014. Holm's attorneys have argued that Peine and her sister-wife Patricia Peine should be denied custody of their and Holm's children due to the possible influence that Warren Jeffs, who was sentenced to life in prison by a Texas court in 2011for sexually assaulting two underage girls whom he had taken as spiritual wives, might have over the children. (AP Photo/The Spectrum & Daily News, Jud Burkett, Pool)
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Lorin Holm, an exiled member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, looks on as video of a deposition of FLDS Church leader Warren Jeffs is played for the court during a custody hearing between Holm and his two ex-wives who still belong to the FLDS Church in 5th District Court in St. George, Utah Thursday, March 27, 2014. Holm's attorneys have argued that the mothers of Holm's children should be denied custody due to the possible influence that Warren Jeffs, who was sentenced to life in prison by a Texas court in 2011for sexually assaulting two underage girls whom he had taken as spiritual wives, might have over the children. (AP Photo/The Spectrum & Daily News, Jud Burkett, Pool)
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Lorin Holm, an exiled member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, looks on as video of a deposition of FLDS Church leader Warren Jeffs is played for the court during a custody hearing between Holm and his two ex-wives who still belong to the FLDS Church in 5th District Court in St. George, Utah Thursday, March 27, 2014. Holm's attorneys have argued that the mothers of Holm's children should be denied custody due to the possible influence that Warren Jeffs, who was sentenced to life in prison by a Texas court in 2011for sexually assaulting two underage girls whom he had taken as spiritual wives, might have over the children. (AP Photo/The Spectrum & Daily News, Jud Burkett, Pool)
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Lynda Peine, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, sits with her fingers in her ears as testimony regarding FLDS church leader Warren Jeffs is read during a custody hearing between Peine and her ex-husband, Lorin Holm, who was excommunicated from the church, in 5th District Court in St. George, Utah Thursday, March 27, 2014. Holm's attorneys have argued that Peine and her sister-wife Patricia Peine should be denied custody of their and Holm's children due to the possible influence that Warren Jeffs, who was sentenced to life in prison by a Texas court in 2011 for sexually assaulting two underage girls whom he had taken as spiritual wives, might have over the children. (AP Photo/The Spectrum & Daily News, Jud Burkett, Pool)
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FILE - This Aug. 9, 2011, file photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows polygamist leader Warren Jeffs in Huntsville, Texas. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says Jeffs is no longer hospitalized and has been returned to prison in East Texas. Agency spokesman Robert Hurst confirmed Thursday, March 27, 2014, that Jeffs was discharged from Hospital Galveston, a TDCJ facility southeast of Houston. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice, File)
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File - In this Aug. 3, 2011 file photo, Polygamist religious leader Warren Jeffs, left, arrives at the Tom Green County Courthouse escorted by a law enforcement officer in San Angelo, Texas. A Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Robert Hurst said Jeffs is in stable condition, Monday, March 17, 2014, at a Galveston hospital. Hurst says Jeffs was admitted March 11, for treatment of a condition that's not life-threatening. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
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This Aug. 9, 2011, photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows polygamist leader Warren Jeffs in Huntsville, Texas. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Robert Hurst said Jeffs is in stable condition, Monday, March 17, 2014, at a Galveston hospital. Hurst says Jeffs was admitted March 11, for treatment of a condition that's not life-threatening. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice, File)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Convicted polygamist leader Warren Jeffs is escorted into the courthouse in San Angelo, Texas, on Tuesday for sentencing. He received life in prison and a consecutive 20-year term.
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** FILE ** Polygamist religious leader Warren Jeffs arrives in hand shackles to the Tom Green County Courthouse for the sentencing phase of his trial Friday, Aug. 5, 2011, in San Angelo, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)