Rare bigamy charges filed against Corvallis man
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Investigators say a Corvallis man had two June weddings within three years and has been charged with bigamy.
The start of a divorce led to the felony charge against 42-year-old Michael Wayne Haliburton II.
He got married June 12 after checking the "single" box on the marriage license application.
A few months later, Jackson says, a woman Haliburton married in 2009 called his probation officer for his address to have divorce papers served.
Benton County Undersheriff Scott Jackson says such a charge is rare. State officials told the Corvallis Gazette-Times bigamy is usually unintentional — somebody mistakenly thinks a divorce has been made final.
Haliburton pleaded not guilty Wednesday. He's also accused of methamphetamine possession, resisting arrest and interfering with a peace officer during his arrest.
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Information from: Gazette-Times
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
I want to file charges on my "husband" he left 11 days after our wedding to be engaged to someone else and found out after he left he never got a divorce from his first wife... beware of DAVID ALLETTE.
RelaxThereIsNoGod is correct about Mormonism. It is a cult just like Scientology. It was invented by a flim flam man who was later killed by an angry mob. I too believe we should not condem someone else's religion, but think it is a stretch calling Mormonism a religion.
While I don't condone bigamy, I find it rather telling that we arrest a man for marrying two women, but we encourage and provide special incentives for couples consisting of two men or two women. Â
Bigamy if intentional, involves essentially deceiving one or more spouses, and mis-representing one's status as a single person, who is supposed to be legally able to enter into a marriage. Regardless of your obviously, anti-homsexual viewpoint, gay marriage, between two people, has nothing at all to do with deceiving anyone. Now if a married gay person lies about being married, and goes and marries a second person...then yes, then they are acting just as unlawful and deceitful as this "hetero-sexaul" bigamist was.
Why in the world is this fool smiling? Oh yeah, he won't have to work, pay for food, shelter, clothing, support his wives/children, etc.Â
He sounds like Mitt Romney's Grandfather a Polygamist with five wives who fled a crackdown on them and the Mormon church. They lived for quite a few years in a colony full of this type of guy until they fled the Mexican war and came back to America where they were greeted with free housing, food and clothing (welfare). Polygamists sure are a weird bunch, but then again, so are Mormons. Did you know that they actually believe their God lives on the planet Kolob?
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Source on polygamy.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney
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Source on Planet Kolob. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolob
@RelaxThereIsNoGod    Since there is no God, why do you care? Polygamy is illegal based on Judeao-Christian practice in the West.  Britain and Australia recognize it if the marriage took place where it is legal (sort of like some gay marriage places). These 50 countries allow it:  Afghanistan Algeria Bahrain Bangladesh Brunei Burkina Faso Cameroon Chad Comoros Congo Djibouti Egypt Ethiopia Gabon India Indonesia Iran Iraq Jordan Kuwait Libya Malaysia Maldives Mali Mauritania Morocco Myanmar Niger Oman Pakistan Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia Senegal Singapore Somalia South Africa Sri Lanka Sudan Syria Tanzania Togo Uganda UAE Yemen Zambia Someoneonce said the plural of 'spouse' is 'spice'.
@RelaxThereIsNoGod He may sound like Mitt Romney's Grandfather, but he sure looks more like Obama to me. You apparently really dislike Mormons, what did they ever do to you? Do you always question someone's religion. Do you believe in the Constitution? Do you know where God lives? What year was it that Welfare was formed, was that during the Mexican war.Â
Geez, he sounds like an upstanding citizen.