Indeed, the actions taken against the FLDS are vindictive. At this point I would imagine that the powers that be in State of Texas would be willing to do almost anything to try to save face in this case, as well as a few million dollars of taxpayers money that will inevitably be lost as a result of all the lawsuits they will be hit with.

CNN.com

An attorney for a polygamous sect is accusing Utah police and prosecutors of abusing their authority and slandering sect members by passing on bad information about them to Texas authorities.

Authorities in Utah sent Texas officials dossiers that described 16 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as threatening religious fanatics who may be willing to die for their cause.

An FLDS ranch in Texas was raided in April in response to a child abuse allegation. More than 400 were removed from the ranch but all were returned to their parents this month.

The home of the judge overseeing the case was placed under guard after Texas officials received the dossiers, but there was never any violence from church members.

“These are not abstract claims. Your actions harm real people,” church attorney Rod Parker wrote in a letter sent Tuesday to Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, Washington County Sheriff Kirk Smith and Washington County Attorney Brock Belnap.

“We believe it is incumbent upon you to immediately correct these abuses,” Parker wrote.

The information in the dossiers was collected by Washington County during the 2007 criminal trial of FLDS leader Warren Jeffs.

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