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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Police say a Salt Lake City attorney who defended polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs in a 2007 criminal trial has been arrested in southern Utah.
Purgatory Correctional Facility booking records show Walter "Wally" Bugden was arrested at 1:38 a.m. Saturday by police in Ivins on suspicion of public intoxication.
Bugden, 58, was released from the Washington County jail after posting a $182 bond.
Ivins police declined to release any details about Bugden's arrest.
Jeffs is head of the southern-Utah based Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 2007 a 5th District Court jury convicted the church leader on two counts of rape as an accomplice for his role in the marriage of underage follower to her cousin.
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