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(Salt Lake City-AP) -- Polygamist Tom Green has appealed his bigamy convictions to the state's highest court, arguing a recent US Supreme Court ruling bolsters his case.
John Bucher is Green's attorney. He says the recent Supreme Court striking down a Texas sodomy law argued against singling out any one purportedly immoral group.
In Friday's filing, Bucher wrote that Utah's laws against bigamy create a prosecution based on the moral disapproval of the practice,
At trial, Green argued he was only "spiritually" married to five women. But a judge determined Green had a common law marriage with first wife Linda Kunz, and jurors found him guilty for co-habitating with the other women.
Green, who was also convicted of child rape, is serving a sentence of five years to life at the Utah State Prison.
The high court will hear arguments in the case this fall.
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