bigamy
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Jiaying Chen, 33, admitted to one count of bigamy and one count of obtaining money under false pretenses in a plea agreement filed in Clark County District Court on Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Circuit Court of Appeals panel ordered the Mississippi secretary of state to stop enforcing a provision in the state constitution that disenfranchises people convicted of specific crimes, including murder, forgery and bigamy.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
Eight crimes listed in the 1890 version of the provision - bribery, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement and bigamy - remain as disqualifying offenses today.
From Reuters ● Jun. 30, 2023
Mississippi strips voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including forgery, arson and bigamy.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 11, 2023
He often told her that he was going to tell a policeman and have Sissy arrested for bigamy.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
I asked him—a Scotch marriage, or some of those crooked wed-locks on which they found bigamies and illegitimacies.
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
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