Tony Alamo’s defense team doesn’t want words like polygamy, cult and compound to be mentioned during Alamo’s federal sexual abuse trial.

“The evidence of multiple relationships with numerous females has a propensity to hit a nerve in some jurors and the chance is great the defendant will be the subject of jury retribution,” a motion filed Thursday by the defense argued.

During a tour of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministry outpost Tuesday in Fouke, Ark., a book titled “Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society” was among other religiously oriented texts shelved in Alamo’...

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