B.C. judge to deliver verdict for two men in polygamy case dating back to 1990s
CRANBROOK, B.C. — A verdict is expected Monday in a trial of two former leaders of a British Columbia fundamentalist church who are charged with polygamy.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Sheri Ann Donegan has been presiding over the trial of Winston Blackmore and James Oler, who are accused of having multiple wives.
Both men were at one time bishops of separate sects in the isolated community of Bountiful in southeastern B.C.
The mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is based in Utah, officially renounced polygamy in the late 19th century and disputes the fundamentalist group’s connection to Mormonism.