“Had not Pahoran, the newly installed governor and chief judge, the right and the duty to judge all such cases? (Mosiah 29:25). … It may well have been that the law of conspiracy was not clearly settled under Nephite law. … Seeing the possible conflict between legal action on conspiracy and the rights afforded people to believe and to think what they wanted … Pahoran may have determined that this case needed to be submitted to the people for their determination” (Welch, Legal Cases in the Book of Mormon, 317–18).