Polygamist leader seeks new trial, says rights violated

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SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who is serving a life sentence for sexually assaulting his two child brides, has asked for a new trial, claiming his religious rights were violated.

The 55-year-old spiritual leader of a breakaway Mormon sect made the request in a handwritten note from a Texas hospital where he was being treated after falling ill while fasting in jail, the Texas Attorney General's office said on Wednesday.

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