Texarkana Gazette
August 28, 2010
By: Lynn LaRowe
Lawsuit targets Alamo followers.
Businesses owned and run by members of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries are among defendants named in a civil lawsuit filed Friday by victims of Tony Alamo.
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In: 2010, Breaking News
The Santa Clarita Valley Signal
August 27, 2010
By Signal Staff and wire services
Alamo appeals sentence
Tony Alamo, a 75-year-old evangelist sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars for having sex with young children, will have a chance to fight his 175-year prison sentence before a federal appeals court next month, officials announced Friday.
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Today’s THV
The Associated Press
August 26, 2010
Tony Alamo sex case to go before federal appeals court
A federal appeals court has scheduled oral arguments for the case of evangelist Tony Alamo, who’s appealing his 175-year prison sentence for sex charges.
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Daily 49er (California State University Long Beach)
By Gerry Wachovsky
August 11, 2010
Religious zealots should not be allowed to indoctrinate from jail
Religious propaganda inundates us daily, even in the most unlikely of places. Say that you just got done working out with your friend at the gym and you are walking to your car, when on your windshield you see what can’t be anything but a brochure inviting you to find Jesus and take him into your heart, from your friend Tony Alamo.
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In: 2010, News Blogs & Forums
Arkansas Online
July 21, 2010
The Associated Press
Alamo claims trial unfair in sex convictions
Evangelist Tony Alamo has told a federal appeals court that he should get a new trial because having sex with the minors he brought across state lines wasn’t the primary purpose for transporting the girls.
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The Commercial Appeal (Memphis)
July 21, 2010
Chuck Bartels, The Associated Press
Evangelist seeks new trial in Arkansas sexual abuse case
Jailed evangelist Tony Alamo wants a federal appeals court to grant him a new trial on charges he transported minors across state lines for sex or at least order a resentencing because of the trial judge’s references to God.
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In: 2010, Breaking News
Texarkana Gazette
July 21, 2010
By: Lynn LaRowe
Lawyer says Alamo should get new trial
Defense says sex with minors was ‘incidental’
Tony Alamo should get a new trial because sex with minors was “incidental” to his purpose for traveling across state lines, his lawyer argues in Alamo’s most recent appellate brief.
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Texarkana Gazette
July 5, 2010
By: Jim Williamson
Arkansas State Police investigator retires
When the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries compound raid started in Fouke, Ark., State Police Sgt. John Bishop had to call 911 to get help.
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