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Eldorado, Texas is located in Schleicher County. Zip codes in Eldorado, TX include 76936. More Eldorado information.

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Polygamist sect man convicted of sexual assault of minor

ELDORADO, Texas – After being duped by false leads and chastised by a court for its handling of polygamist sect children, the state of Texas has won a criminal conviction in its first trial of a sect member charged with sexually assaulted an underage girl.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

ScrippsNews

Polygamist sect member found guilty of sexual assault

Polygamist sect member found guilty of sexual assault Submitted by SHNS on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 19:27 ELDORADO, Texas - The jury in the trial of polygamist sect member Raymond Merril Jessop found him guilty of sexual assault of a child Thursday evening after deliberating fewer than three hours.

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WWUP-TV Cadillac

Fort Hood suspect survives...Anti-health care bill rally..."Dead" pact

A senior U.S. official is offering more insight into why authorities initially claimed the suspected shooter at Texas' Fort Hood was dead.

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WWUP-TV Cadillac

Shooting aftermath...Gay marriage referendum...Texas execution

Fort Hood, Texas, is stunned by today's killing of 11 soldiers and wounding of 31 others by an Army major who was a psychiatrist.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

Hays Daily News

ELDORADO, Texas (AP) -- Texas jury convicts 38- ...

Texas jury convicts 38-year-old polygamist sect member of sexual assault of a child.

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Mountain Ear

Witness: FLDS men lead all aspects of sect life

ELDORADO, Texas After days of meticulous plodding through photos and records seized from a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch , jurors could begin deliberating the sexual assault case against one of its members as early as Thursday.

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Tue Nov 03, 2009

KansasCity.com

Judge orders redaction of polygamist documents

A Texas judge is ordering that some documents showing multiple women allegedly married to the same man in a polygamist group be excluded from his trial on charges of child sexual abuse.District Judge Barbara Walther on Tuesday ordered that a document listing one pregnant woman and three nursing mothers, all allegedly married to 38-year-old Raymond ...

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Mon Nov 02, 2009

The Spokesman-Review

In brief: Suspect killed in FBI shootout

Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested several members of a radical Sunni Islam group in the U.S., killing one of its leaders at a shootout in a Michigan warehouse, the U.S. attorney's office said.

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Sat Oct 31, 2009

KQXT-FM San Antonio

Testimony Begins In FLDS trial

Even though there is not a single member of the Fundamental sect of the Latter Day Saints church on the jury, defense attorneys for a polygamist husband, accused of raping one of his child brides, think he can get a fair trial in tiny Eldorado, Texas.

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Thu Oct 29, 2009

KIII

Polygamist Trial Under Way

By MICHELLE ROBERTS Associated Press Writer ELDORADO, Texas - A law officer who took part in the 2008 raid of a West Texas polygamist group's ranch was the first to testify in a member's criminal trial.

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Wed Oct 28, 2009

KQXT-FM San Antonio

Jury Selected in FLDS Trial

Opening arguments begin today in the trial of Raymond Merril Jessop, who is charged with sexual assault of a child for raping an underage girl who was one of his nine 'wives,' 1200 WOAI's Michael Board reports from Eldorado.

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Tue Oct 27, 2009

KOSA

Jury Selection Continues in FLDS Trial

Odessa Man Charged with Kidnapping and Sexual Assault Found Competent to Stand Trial 10/27/09 The attorney for 24-year old Dwayne Dale Billings confirmed that there will be a hearing for a change of venue.

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KKSA-AM San Angelo

FLDS Man Jury Selection to Continue

In Eldorado, after a full day of questioning yesterday, about 1 hundred fifty residents of Schleicher County are being asked to return today as lawyers seek jurors for the trial of a member of a polygamist sect raided in West Texas last year.

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Abilene Reporter-News

Call to serve on jury drains some workplaces in Eldorado

The large jury pool called in the trial of Raymond Merril Jessop - 153 out of the 300 summoned came to Eldorado's Memorial Building on Monday - affected the town's business life and institutions.

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Mon Oct 26, 2009

KXMB-TV Bismarck

First polygamist sect criminal trial begins

Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. AP Photo TXHC102, NY122 By MICHELLE ROBERTS Associated Press Writer ELDORADO, Texas The first of a dozen polygamist sect members charged with abuse of women stands trial Monday, 18 months after agents raided the group's remote ranch and carted off more than 400 children in the largest child-custody case in American ...

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Sun Oct 25, 2009

Houston Chronicle

Leader's son will be first to face FLDS sex assault trial

The son of one of the most powerful families within a polygamist Mormon sect goes to trial for sexual assault Monday, a case in which Texas prosecutors will provide their first public evidence that Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints men engaged in sex with underage girls.

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CBS2

Jury Selection Slated For Polygamist Ranch Case

Share + Oct 24, 2009 4:00 pm US/Central ELDORADO, Texas 1 of 1 Jury selection is slated to begin Monday in the trial of the first of 12 male members of a Texas polygamist sect whose ranch state officials raided last year.

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Sat Oct 24, 2009

KHWB-TV Houston

Polygamist sect member to stand trial in remote Texas town; 1st such trial since raid

The first jury trial in more than a decade in the sleepy West Texas town of Eldorado involves an alleged polygamist and an accusation of sexual assault of an underage bride, a far cry from the occasional drunken driving cases that normally occupy the Schleicher County court system.

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Fri Oct 23, 2009

CNN

FLDS trial to start

The first criminal trial following the April 2008 raid on the FLDS ranch in Texas begins Monday in Eldorado, Texas.

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Thu Oct 15, 2009

FindLaw

Why Oprah Should Be Obama's Children's Czar - " and the Priorities She Should Set

There have been some rumors that Oprah Winfrey may be looking at horizons beyond her hugely successful television show.

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