Schleicher County News

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott made a surprise appearance Tuesday at the trial of a polygamist group member, to question potential jurors in the sexual assault case.

In a pre-trial hearing today, 51st District Judge Barbara Walther denied a state request to move the trial of Allan Eugene Keate from Schleicher County to Tom Green County.

Many Schleicher county residents will once be called to jury duty next month, as the 2nd FLDS man is facing trial for child sexual assault.

Convicted sex offender Raymond Merril Jessop smiled Tuesday on the way to the Schleicher County Jail from a makeshift courtroom where he'd just been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A polygamist sect member arrested following last year's raid of a west Texas ranch was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting an underage girl, authorities said.

A Schleicher County jury is deliberating what penalty to give FLDS member Raymond Merril Jessop.

A Schleicher County jury for the first time heard a DNA expert explain how she concluded that Raymond Merril Jessop is the father of a child born in 2005 to his alleged victim.

A former female member of the FLDS took the stand today as 38 year old Raymond Jessop is on trial for child sexual assault.

Prosecution defends DNA evidence in trial of polygamist sect member Submitted by SHNS on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 20:16 ELDORADO, Texas - A DNA expert did the math to show jurors Monday that altering calculations to determine paternity would barely change results of tests indicating polygamist sect member Raymond Merril Jessop fathered a child with a ...

" The Texas AgriLife Extension Service offices of Schleicher and Sutton counties will conduct a public continuing education unit training beginning at 8:30 a.m. Nov.

Prospective jurors, including women from the Yearning for Zion Ranch, arrive for the first day of jury selection in the trial of Raymond Jessop Monday.

The first criminal trial stemming from the massive state raid on a polygamist group's ranch last year in West Texas came to an abrupt halt Thursday.

A 38-year-old man from a polygamist sect sexually assaulted a teenager less than half his age at the Yearning For Zion Ranch, a prosecutor charged Wednesday to open the first criminal trial since the ranch was raided.

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.

To Roger Caouette, the idea that the glass bottles people leave out for recycling end up being buried as part of a roadbed doesn't make much sense.

Eighteen months after a police raid at the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ranch in remote west Texas led to the largest child custody case in American history, the first of twelve FLDS leaders charged in the case is set to go on trial on Monday.

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.

With an Eldorado court trial looming for an FLDS Sect member, today 37 year old Raymond Merril Jessop pleaded not guilty of sexual assault.

A polygamist sect member set to go on trial on a sexual assault charge asked a judge Wednesday to exclude allegations about multiple marriages and illegal bank activity, saying the accusations are unsubstantiated and unfairly prejudicial.