Fifth District Judge G. Rand Beacham issued an order Tuesday
denying a motion to dismiss charges of rape against
Allen Glade Steed based upon the statute of limitations.
Attorneys for Steed petitioned the court to have the charge of rape dismissed because the state waited too long to file the charge. Steed was
charged September 26, 2007 shortly after a St. George jury had found
Warren Steed Jeffs guilty of being an accomplice to rape. The decision by Judge Beacham allows the case to go to trial.
It was
Steed’s marriage to Elissa Wall at 14-years of age when he was 19-years old that was the premise under which
FLDS leader
Warren Jeffs was tried and convicted of being an accomplice to rape and found guilty. The case against Steed is for alleged non-consensual intercourse between him and Wall.
Jeffs performed a spiritual marriage between the pair in 2001 and allegedly encouraged the nonconsensual relationship as ordained of God.
