Steed has bail hearing
 
By Patrice St. Germain
The Spectrum
 
ST. GEORGE - Allen Glade Steed appeared in 5th District Court on Thursday morning for a bail hearing.

Steed, 26, was charged with one count of rape on Sept. 26, the day after a jury found Warren Steed Jeffs guilty on two counts of rape as an accomplice for arranging the 2001 marriage between Steed and his then 14-year-old cousin Elissa Wall.

Steed was booked on the charge Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at Purgatory Correctional Facility after Steed contacted the Hildale/Colorado City Town Marshal's Office and turned himself in to Officer Helaman Barlow at the Hildale Town Office. Lt. Jake Adams, with the Washington County Sheriff's Office, said Steed paid $5,000 cash bail and was released at 3:12 a.m.

"When he (Steed) came in, there were about 10 people ahead of him waiting to be booked and because it was drug court day, we had commitments coming in (from the court), so it took a while and he had to wait his turn," Adams said.

Steed appeared in court at 9 a.m. with his parents and his attorneys, Jim Bradshaw and Mark Moffat, before Judge G. Rand Beacham.

The court appearance was brief. Bradshaw asked for a status conference to set a date for a preliminary hearing after he had looked at the substantial amount of discovery.

The telephone conference was scheduled for Nov. 2.

Bradshaw said following the hearing that he had been retained as Steed's attorney months ago.

Steed testified during the Jeffs trial that he never forced his wife to have intercourse and said that Jeffs "had done nothing wrong."

Bradshaw had no comment about his client testifying during the Jeffs trial and Steed also said he had no comment as he left the courthouse.

Paperwork to charge Steed had been drawn up Sept. 21 by the Washington County Attorney's Office but wasn't filed until the day after the verdict came in on the Jeffs case.

Steed's charge of rape covers a time period from April 14, 2001, to Sept. 30, 2004.

Steed was married to Wall in a spiritual marriage by Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

The FLDS Church practices the principal tenets of plural and arranged marriages.
 
TheSpectrum.com
Originally published October 5, 2007
 
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