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   From: me4guns@vcenturylink.removeme.this2.nospam.net   
      
   "Just Wondering"  wrote in message   
   news:54305c56$0$4775$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net...   
   > Scout wrote:   
   >> Just Wondering wrote:   
   >>> Scout wrote:   
   >>>> Just Wondering wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>> Under Utah law, Kodi has only one wife, Mari has only one husband, and   
   >>>>> the other three ladies have no marital partner at all.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Then why were they being investigated then?   
   >>>>   
   >>> Because Utah's bigamy statute, Utah Code Ann. 76-7-101 states:   
   >>>   
   >>> (1) A person is guilty of bigamy when, knowing he has a husband or   
   >>> wife or knowing the other person has a husband or wife, the person   
   >>> purports to marry another person or cohabits with another person.   
   >>> (2) Bigamy is a felony of the third degree.   
   >>>   
   >>> Kodi Brown had a wife, Mari, and also cohabited with three other   
   >>> women. Under Utah law, he was committing three felonies.   
   >>   
   >> And yet it were the Browns that were under investigation. So why were   
   >> they investigating all 5 if the issue was only with him?   
   >>   
   > Because Utah case law construes "cohabits" to mean "lives together as   
   > husband and wife." if the state wanted to charge Kodi with "unlawful   
   > cohabitation" bigamy, it would have to prove that Kodi lived together as   
   > man and wife with one or more of the other women.  Which means that to   
   > bring the charge against Kodi, the state would have to prove the other   
   > women's living arrangements with Kodi.   
      
   Ah, but you've already told me that Utah only sees him as married to one of   
   the women. So how can he cohabit with the others?   
      
   Oh, and would not that the women also cohabit with the other women. Because   
   nothing in the term cohabitation says "lives together as husband and wife"   
   only that they cohabitate as married people do.   
      
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