Aaron Brewer has been charged with bigamy in Kentucky.  He’s in the process of divorcing his wife of fifteen years but the divorce had not yet been finalized in Kentucky when he married a new wife in Arkansas.  He was charged with bigamy on Sept. 8 in Kentucky.  The original article here also has an interesting observation . . .

Bigamy is a felony punishable by one to five years in prison. The Herald-Leader reported in 2002 that more bigamy charges are filed in Kentucky than in 11 other states that also track the crime. In 2001, Kentucky had 35 bigamy prosecutions. Only North Carolina came close, with 27. Florida reported a total of 12 in 2000 and 2001. In comparison, Utah, a state closely identified with polygamy, had prosecuted fewer than 10 bigamy cases since the 1950s.

Kentucky outstrips others for polygamy prosecutions, more than Utah where many polygamy communities are based but prosecutions are rare compared to the other states.  Of course, the Utah resistance to legal polygamy but reluctance to prosecute the many communities there since the 1950s is partially related to a huge crackdown that showed law enforcement agents breaking down doors, forcibly removing women and children and beating men senseless in one of the largest polygamy prosecution debacles in that state’s history, one that engendered public support of the day for the rights of the polygamists to live their lives in seclusion and freedom and cost the attorney general his job.  Very few folks would want to step into that legal and public relations quagmire again.