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ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) -- An attorney for polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs has agreed to a plea deal on a misdemeanor intoxication charge.
Walter "Wally" Bugden was arrested Feb. 7 by Ivins police and booked into jail. He was charged with class C misdemeanor intoxication.
Court records show Bugden pleaded no contest to the charge as part of a plea in abeyance on April 16 in Washington County Justice Court. The records show he also paid a fee of $182.
Bugden, 58, represented Jeffs, head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, in a 2007 criminal trial.
A St. George jury convicted Jeffs on two first-degree felony counts of rape as an accomplice for his role in the marriage of an underage girl.
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