Source:  gosanangelo.com

A top leader of the YFZ Ranch and the most public defender of the polygamous sect housed there have been subpoenaed and will be deposed beginning Friday in Schleicher County.

Lawyer Natalie Malonis, the lightning-rod attorney for imprisoned sect leader Warren Jeffs’ now-17-year-old daughter, has subpoenaed:

* Merril Jessop, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints elder believed to have run the ranch since Jeffs was imprisoned

* Willie Jessop, a sect member who has served as its spokesman since a state raid in April

The depositions – scheduled for Friday and Monday – were confirmed by the Tom Green County District Clerk’s Office. Copies of the subpoenas and subsequent motions to quash them, rejected Wednesday by 51st District Judge Barbara Walther, were not immediately available.

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