Trial for Colorado City polygamist postponed to April
 
By Jim Seckler
Mohave Daily News
 
KINGMAN - The trial for one of two remaining Colorado City polygamists was put off for another month.

Rodney Holm's jury trial has been postponed to April 17. Holm, 40, a former Colorado City police officer, is charged with three counts of sexual conduct with a minor.

Holm and seven other codefendants belong to a controversial polygamist sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Colorado City.

Of the remaining codefendants, Dale Evans Barlow, 49, is charged with one count of sexual conduct with a minor and one count of conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. No new date has been set for his trial.

Charges against Randolph Barlow were dismissed two weeks ago when the victim refused to testify against him. Barlow, 33, was charged with two counts of sexual conduct with a minor.

Vergel Bryce Jessop, 47 is expected to be sentenced March 22. He pleaded no contest Dec. 18 to an undesignated charge of child abuse. He had been charged with sexual conduct with a minor and conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor.

David Romaine Bateman, 50, was convicted in October of sexual conduct with a minor and conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. He was sentenced to nine months in state prison and must register as a sex offender.

Kelly Fischer, 39, was convicted of sexual conduct with a minor and conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. He was sentenced to 45 days in county jail and probation.

In September, a Mohave County jury acquitted Donald Robert Barlow, 50, of one count of sexual conduct with a minor. Charges against Terry Darger Barlow, 25, were dropped in October.
 
MohaveDailyNews.com
Originally published Wednesday, March 7, 2007
 
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