The legal system in frontier Utah was as wild as the wild wild west. Lindsay and John discuss the decades long battle between the federal and local court system, and the fall out it caused. Claims of abuse, corruption, and a murder ordered by Brigham Young are discussed. Who was right and who was wrong when the feds go up against the Mormons?
<a href="https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/DD_CP05.mp3">Listen to this episode here.</a>

The legal system in frontier Utah was as wild as the wild wild west. Lindsay and John discuss the decades long battle between the federal and local court system, and the fall out it caused. Claims of abuse, corruption, and a murder ordered by Brigham Young are discussed. Who was right and who was wrong when the feds go up against the Mormons? Listen to this episode here.

The legal system in frontier Utah was as wild as the wild wild west. Lindsay and John discuss the decades long battle between the federal and local court system, and the fall out it caused. Claims of abuse, corruption, and a murder ordered by Brigham Young are discussed. Who was right and who was wrong when the feds go up against the Mormons?
<a href="https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/DD_CP05.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer">Listen to this episode here.</a>

S1E5: Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged

On Oct. 26, 1866 non-Mormon Dr. John k. Robinson was taken from his home  and brutally murdered by a gang of Mormon men in the heart of Salt Lake City. In Season One of Deseret Dramas, criminal prosecutor and Mormon legal historian John Dinger, along with Sunstone's Lindsay Hansen Park discuss the brutal killing of Robinson and many others who lived outside the law in Mormonism. Join them for a limited-series podcast season where they discuss extralegal and vigilante justice throughout the history of early Mormonism.

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On Oct. 26, 1866 non-Mormon Dr. John k. Robinson was taken from his home and brutally murdered by a gang of Mormon men in the heart of Salt Lake City. In Season One of Deseret Dramas, criminal prosecutor and Mormon legal historian John Dinger, along with Sunstone's Lindsay Hansen Park discuss the brutal killing of Robinson and many others who lived outside the law in Mormonism. Join them for a limited-series podcast season where they discuss extralegal and vigilante justice throughout the history of early Mormonism.

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