Religious sect leader Warren Jeffs made an appearance in a San Angelo courtroom today - by telephone - and the result is that his new trial on a felony bigamy charge has been tentatively set back to Feb. 15, 2012. The trial was originally scheduled to start Oct. 31. At a pretrial hearing this morning which Jeffs, who is in a Galveston hospital, was given the new date after District Judge Barbara Walther asked him whether he would request additional time. Jeffs said he would. A pretrial hearing is now set to take place Jan. 6. Jeffs has been recovering in the prison hospital after being treated following an episode of malnourishment apparently brought on by fasting. It was not known when he would return to Huntsville state prison, where he is serving a term of life plus 20 years on two convictions of sexual assault of a child.
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