From the ArcaMax Publishing, Religious News Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/religiousnews/s-367920-750853
A teenage daughter of polygamist Utah sect leader Warren Jeffs has
moved to fire her attorney because she's being kept from seeing her
father.
Teresa Jeffs, 16, told The Salt Lake Tribune that she wants to dump
Natalie Malonis, her court-appointed attorney, because Malonis is
trying to ban contact between her and her imprisoned father, the
former leader of Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints sects in
Utah and Texas.
The newspaper Monday published a copy of an e-mail message Teresa
Jeffs wrote to Malonis, which read in part, "The most help you will be
to me now is for you to step aside and let me get a different lawyer
that I feel like can help me."
Malonis, Teresa Jeffs told the newspaper in an interview, is "fighting
my own father and made it so I can't write to him." Malonis, however,
has alleged that the girl's push for a new attorney was due to
coercion from FLDS spokesman Willie Jessop.
Warren Jeffs is serving two sentences for up to life in prison in Utah
after being convicted of rape as an accomplice.