Eldorado News

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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

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