Hundreds of pages from polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs' daily diary made their way from a court case involving UEP Trust fiduciary Bruce R. Wisan to an Internet blog this week -- only to be quickly pulled after Wisan's attorney acknowledged they were filed by mistake.
Attorney D'Arcy M. Downs-Vollbracht, who is defending Wisan on a criminal trespass charge in Arizona, filed a motion last week seeking to dismiss the case against the fiduciary. As part of that, she included an electronic file she thought contained only dictations in which Jeffs discussed the United Effort Plan Trust, the sect's property trust that Wisan has overseen since 2005.
Instead, "several thousand pages" of dictations -- including religious teachings and details about the personal lives of FLDS members living on trust land in Utah and Arizona -- wound up in the court file, a portion of which was then published on a Internet site set up by anonymous bloggers.
Bloggers who operate the sites "Coram Non Judice" and "FLDS Texas" announced on Monday a new blog, FLDS Priesthood Records, where they would publish "previously undisclosed" dictations made by Jeffs they said had been filed in an unnamed Arizona court case.
The bloggers described the dictations as containing "the thoughts and actions of the FLDS" during a four-year period. By Tuesday, the bloggers had posted dictations from September through December of 2002 -- though one post contained dictations from January 2006 about FLDS temple ordinances and religious blessings given to members.
The Salt Lake Tribune asked Downs-Vollbracht on Tuesday afternoon to review the blog site to see if documents posted there were filed in her case. The posts were removed from the blog Tuesday night.
On Wednesday, Downs-Vollbracht asked the judge hearing the trespass case to seal the electronic file containing the dictations "until I am able to determine what exactly is on those drives."
"Apparently not all of the documents contained on the memory stick were documents I reviewed or approved prior to filing," Downs-Vollbracht said in an e-mail to the judge. "While I do fully intend to utilize the Warren Jeffs dictations which refer to my clients and the UEP, and give a historical perspective of the tensions in the area, my clients and I never planned or intended to utilize items of a personal nature regarding specific FLDS church members."
Wisan also issued an apology for the slip Wednesday.
While some of Jeffs' dictations provide "relevant and critical" information useful in his defense, Wisan said he "wishes to express regret and responsibility" for disclosure of "unintended personal information."
Wisan is charged with misdemeanor criminal trespass for allegedly instructing an employee to enter FLDS members homes in Colorado City, Ariz., without permission and change locks to the dwellings.
Downs-Vollbracht said in her e-mail to the court she had reviewed "thousands of documents which include family pictures, marriage records, and health records" but did not intend to use them. That kind of information has been introduced in criminal trials of FLDS men in Texas.
Downs-Vollbracht said she was not at liberty to say "where or how I obtained" Jeffs' dictations.
In a recent Utah court filing, Wisan referred to newly obtained documents about Jeffs' activities and said they were received by his Texas attorney "as part of civil proceedings involving children removed from the YFZ Ranch." In April 2008, Texas authorities raided the ranch, home to sect members, and removed 439 children and hundreds of boxes of evidence -- including the dictations that make up Jeffs' personal record.
Wisan's Texas attorney is Natalie Malonis, who was appointed to represent one of Jeffs' daughters during the child welfare proceedings. Malonis used some of Jeffs' dictations as exhibits a year ago in that case, but the dictations briefly published online this week were not introduced then.
Malonis did not return a telephone call or an e-mail request for an interview.

