James Ellison (polygamist) - Charges

Charges

U.S. Attorney Asa Hutchinson charged Ellison and most of his leadership with illegal weapons possession, and Ellison faced the maximum 20 years prison sentence. Ellison was released in 1987 after agreeing to testify against the leader and several head members of the Aryan Nations, the parent organization for the prison group Aryan Brotherhood. The group was rumored to have been strengthened by Robert Miles during his time in federal prison. All seven men were indicted on charges of sedition, but the jury found all of the defendants not guilty on all charges as they "did not find the federal witness credible." Upon his release from federal prison, Ellison moved to Elohim City.

Richard Wayne Snell, the man who shot and killed both the police officer and a pawn shop owner, was sentenced to death by lethal injection, which was administered just hours before the Oklahoma City Bombing took place. Wayne, as his friends called him, was an anomaly amongst the racists. His fetish was black women and pornography, and he operated autonomously using the CSA compound as his "hole in the wall". His running mate Steven Scott gave up this information in a federal prison holding cell. Both practices, race mixing and lewd and lascivious behavior, were forbidden by doctrine, though polygamy was prominent.