(Salt Lake City, UT) - Nancy Volmer, Public Information Officer for the Utah State Courts said Tuesday that the status conference hearing scheduled for Monday, August 23 in the case of State of Utah vs. Warren Steed Jeffs has been continued without date (indefinitely). The request for a speedy trial was set after the District Court's receipt of remittitur from the Utah Supreme Court. Jeffs, a polygamy leader now in a Utah prison is headed to Texas where he will face new sexual assault charges. The 54-year old is accused of bigamy, aggravated sexual assault and assault, based on alleged incidents with under-age girls at a church ranch.

A 2007 conviction for conspiracy to rape was later overturned, but Jeffs is awaiting a retrial in Utah where officials have said he could be tried in Texas before the retrial takes place. Jeffs, part of a breakaway Mormon sect that married young girls to church leaders, was arrested in 2006 while he was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. He was convicted by a Utah court of two counts of conspiracy to rape, including using his religious influence to force a 14-year-old girl to marry her cousin. He received two five-year to life terms. Last month the Utah Supreme Court ordered a retrial, ruling that the judge did not give instructions to the jury correctly at the original trial.

Officials in Texas now want Jeffs and four unnamed men to go on trial over the sexual assault of girls under the age of 17. The indictment lodged in 2008 accuses Jeffs of assaulting a child in January 2005.

Jeffs, currently incarcerated at the Utah state prison, is head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS). The 10,000-member sect, which dominates the towns of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, split from the mainstream Mormon Church more than a century ago.