Nov. trial date set in Warren Jeffs case

Kingman, USA - A trial date has been set in Mohave County Superior Court for the first of two cases against polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs.

The 54-year-old former leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is being tried in Mohave County on sexual conduct with a minor charges stemming from marriages allegedly involving underage girls that occurred in Colorado City.

Jeffs has been in the Mohave County Jail since February 2008. He is already serving two consecutive sentences of five years to life after being convicted in Utah on two counts of rape as an accomplice for his involvement in the marriage of an underage girl to an older man.

The first trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 2, with the second trial to be considered at its conclusion.