Church seeks probe of peyote prosecutions

Utah County: Members claim officials unduly burdened the free practice of their religion PROVO – Less than two weeks after two of its co-founders agreed to stop using and distributing peyote in exchange for the dismissal of federal charges against them, their Oklevueha Earthwalks Native American Church called for a probe into the role of the Utah County Attorney’s Office in the prosecution of the pair. David Lee Hamblin, a spokesman for the Benjamin-based church, contended Monday that the county attorney’s office violated federal acts that bar the government from passing laws that unduly burden the free exercise of religion,