Polygamy convictions?

Polygamy is the situation of a married man that contains more than one spouse. In this situation the two men who are prosecuted have more than one wife, and even though charged with polygamy are pleading not guilty to these accounts. Winston Blackmore and James Oler have pleaded not guilty to a single charge each of practicing polygamy, with serious fine and penalties to be judged.
The two men who have been charged are arguing that their case have prohibited their lives. Arvay is arguing that because the attorney-general in 1993 said the polygamy law was unconstitutional, there was a clear assumption that charges would not be laid. Except the idea of facing the penalty, the two men are arguing the idea of legal fees, and money that need to be contributed to them because of the fatal state they have they and their families have been through.
Charged in January Blackmore, a fundamentalist Mormon, is a former bishop of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, along with Oler, the current FLDS bishop, of having more than one wife. The reason this case have been blown up, is the fact that this case could be the leading precedent in Canada's courts about this special and rare conviction.

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