Excerpt from the Salt Lake Tribune:
A Utah polygamist’s request that the U.S. Supreme Court review his bigamy conviction should be denied because it seeks to “inflate a garden variety” local issue into a constitutional claim, the state said in a brief filed with the high court Friday.
Polygamist ’s petition to the court does not raise an issue of “widespread national importance” and the case, which involved a minor, is not suitable for attacking the law, Asst. Attorney General Laura B. Dupaix said in the filing.
Holm, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, claimed in his October petition that Utah’s bigamy statute is narrowly used to prosecute those who practice polygamy as a religious tenet.
While states have the right to regulate marriage, Holm said in his petition, laws that ban polygamy are outdated, given modern cohabitation customs and recent rulings on liberty and privacy rights.
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