The defendants are all followers of an Amish bishop, 66-year-old Samuel Mullet Sr., ... Amish beard-cutting trial attracts international attention, pitting law of God vs. law of man.

Federal prosecutors submitted a photo they say shows Amish attack. In it, one Amish man is attempting to forcibly remove another's beard. It was one of several attacks that exposed a rift in Ohio ...

Assistant U.S. Attorney Bridget Brennan this morning detailed several attacks by followers of Sam Mullet Sr. on other Amish, including two bishops who had broken away from Sam Mullet. Brennan gave ...

Amish Beard-Cutting Trial: Jury finds leader Samuel Mullet, Sr. guilty of hate crime By Crimesider Staff September 20, 2012 / 8:02 PM EDT / CBS News ...

Amish women typically grow their hair long, and keep it covered. Men, meanwhile, often sport a clean-shaven face until they marry -- and then grow a beard that is never trimmed. (There are ...

Pictures: Amish men charged in beard-cutting attacks The testimony came at the trial of 16 Amish men and women accused of carrying out a series of hate crimes on Amish church leaders in Ohio.

To Amish men, beards mean maturity. They mean solid values and stability. They mean, ‘I am not vain. God gave me this beard, and I’m wearing it without apology.’ ...

Sixteen members of a breakaway Amish sect in Bergholz, Ohio, led by Sam Mullet, have been found guilty of planning and taking part in the attacks targeted the hair and beards of Amish bishops ...

Sixteen members of a conservative Amish church group have been charged with hate crimes after forcibly cutting off the beards of members of a breakaway Amish group. In a piece for Bloomberg View ...

Last week, in U.S. v. Miller, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed the convictions of sixteen members of an Amish sect who had been charged with violating ...

The law of God will collide with the law of man this week in a crowded federal courtroom in Cleveland, where 16 Amish defendants — 10 men with full beards, six women in white bonnets — will ...