Provide the highlights for the following article:\n    (CNN) -- Polygamist sect leader NAME_1 tried to hang himself earlier this year while he was in jail awaiting trial, according to court documents unsealed by a Utah judge on Tuesday. Sect leader NAME_1 arrives in court to hear the verdict against him September 25 in St. George, Utah. NAME_2, the leader and so-called prophet of the 10,000-member Fundamentalist Church of NAME_3 of Latter Day Saints, is now awaiting sentencing after being convicted on two counts of being an accomplice to rape. The documents, released by Fifth District Judge NAME_4 at the request of the media, also indicate that NAME_2 confessed to \"immorality\" with a \"sister\" and a daughter more than 30 years ago. Among the documents is a competency report on NAME_2 completed in April, in which social worker NAME_5 wrote that throughout the month of January, NAME_2 refused food and drink and developed ulcers on his knees from kneeling in prayer for hours. On January 28, the report said, he attempted to hang himself in his cell. In the days following the suicide attempt, while he was on suicide watch, NAME_2 on separate occasions threw himself against the wall and banged his head on the wall. Jail transcripts show that NAME_2' suicide attempt came three days after a visit with his brother, NAME_6, in which he said, \"I am not the prophet. I never was the prophet, and I have been deceived by the powers of evil ... I ask for everyone's forgiveness.\" NAME_2 also told his brother: \"Farewell forever.\" The day before that, NAME_2 told a follower in a phone conversation that he was \"covered with immorality with a sister and a daughter when I was younger.\" In the FLDS, members call adult women \"sister,\" and NAME_2' meaning was unclear. NAME_2' defense attorneys, who argued against the release of the documents, said in a motion opposing the unsealing of the statements that NAME_2 recanted them the following month. Defense attorneys claim NAME_2' medical condition influenced his state of mind when the statements were made. They presented Shumate with a letter from another NAME_2 attorney, arguing that the statements' release could influence an Arizona jury when NAME_2 stands trial in that state. NAME_2, 51, was convicted in September of being an accomplice to rape. He was accused of using his religious influence over his followers to coerce a 14-year-old girl into marriage to her 19-year-old cousin. He faces a sentence of up to life in prison when he is sentenced November 20. The FLD