A lawyer who prosecuted Warren Jeffs says the polygamist religious leader got a fair trial even though Jeffs shed his team of lawyers during trial and chose to represent himself. However, Eric J.R. Nichols, of counsel with Beck, Redden & Secrest in Austin who was a prosecutor for the Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG) in the Jeffs case, says he expects Jeffs to appeal his conviction.
“We feel very comfortable and very confident that he received a fair trial and the judge in the case went to great lengths to ensure that the trial was conducted in accordance with applicable law,” says Nichols.
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