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Posted: 1:43 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17, 2012
By NEWS9
CLEVELAND -- Prosecutors want to detail for jurors alleged sexual "counseling" of Amish wives by a man charged with masterminding beard- and hair-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio.
Federal prosecutors outlined the strategy Friday in a legal brief in the case of 16 Amish defendants facing trial Aug. 27 in Cleveland.
The government says the alleged sexual "counseling" of wives by Samuel Mullet Sr. shows the control he had over followers at their farm complex near Bergholz, Ohio.
Defense attorneys argued in earlier briefs that there is no proof of such sexual conduct and says mentioning it at trial would be prejudicial.
Cutting a man's beard or a woman's hair is considered highly offensive to the Amish. The defendants say it was a matter of church discipline.
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