Can someone who knows Steve Benson ask him if he will be the courtroom sketch artist for my trial tomorrow? Please?

Hopefully, press pays attention.

I am unfamiliar with this and wonder whether the assigned Judge may have likely been appointed, in part, due to his religious affiliation and references?

Common says says the judge's attitude may likely well raise a number of difficult questions.

Among these questions are

(1) the precise content of the relevant Mormon doctrine (specifically, on Temples, e.g. suicide death pacts);

(2) the Church's view about the authoritativeness of that doctrine in and for the lives of its members, which includes the way and the extent to which the doctrine is binding and the consequences the Church attaches to non-adherence;

(3) the judge's attitude about the doctrine as well as his attitude about the institutional and personal costs of non-adherence;

That Judge should value and maintain the credibility and integrity of the Judiciary at least as much as privately held beliefs in Mormonism.

Mormonism's pulpit politicking preference on Marriage (CA) and Marijuana (UT), raise legitimate separation of state/church issues in UT that demand vigilance, and hopefully, judicial independence.

How many times has the church pressed charges? Why did it choose to do so in UT yet none of the other 49 states? Were they forum shopping? Who knows, ....

/r/exmormon Thread Parent