Tag: Flora Jessop

An Arizona attorney plans to seek a court order to require anti-polygamy activist Flora Jessop to answer questions after she refused to cooperate Monday unless a television crew was allowed to tape the meeting.

He wants to ask Jessop about phone conversations she had with a person whose call, later considered a hoax, triggered the April 2008 raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Texas.

In papers filed last week in a Kingman, Ariz., court, Jeffs’ attorneys said they have scheduled a Nov. 24 interview with Flora Jessop in Phoenix. Jeffs’ criminal defense team has asked her to bring copies of “any recordings of any phone calls between yourself and Rozita Swinton,” the woman suspected of making the hoax call that launched the raid.