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Show Swapp seeks new trial Jonathan Swapp, a member of the polygamous family that held law officers at bay for 13 days after bombing the Kamas Stake Center in 1988, is asking for a new trial on his attempted murder conviction, claiming his court-appointed lawyer was uncooperative. Swapp, his brother Addam, Addam's mother-in-law Vicki Singer and her son John Timothy Singer were tried and sentenced to varying prison terms for their roles in the siege, which ended Jan. 28,1988, in a barrage of gunfire that claimed the life of Lt. Fred House, an officer in the state Corrections Department. Swapp, who is serving a 10-year term at a federal prison in Phoenix, claims that Park City attorney Bruce Savage did not effectively effec-tively communicate with him during his trial in U.S. District Court for Utah, according to his current attorney, Earl Spafford. The Park Record |