FLDS News

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.

On the second anniversary of FLDS leader Warren Jeffs being sentenced to prison, the Documentary Channel is airing a pair of programs about members of the Fundamentalist LDS Church.

Most people would never suspect that I - a 53-year-old retired Navy veteran who is conservative to the core - would support the legalization of marijuana ["Texas High Ways," October 2009]. However, I do.

Authorities are gearing up for the next prosecution of a member of the Utah-based Fundamentalist LDS Church.

Raymond Jessop, center, the first man to face criminal charges following the raid of a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch, prepares to go through security as he returns to the courtroom during a recess in the second day of jury selection of his trial in Eldorado, Texas on Tuesday, Oct.

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.

A member of the Utah-based Fundamentalist LDS Church will spend the next 10 years in a Texas prison with no chance of probation.

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.

As detailed in this local report , which is headlined "Testimony in Sentencing for FLDS Member,"the recent conviction in Texas of an FLDS member on sex charges has now led to a fascinatingjury sentencing proceeding: A jury that convicted a member of the Utah-based FLDS Church will begin deliberating his sentence.

ELDORADO a ' The trial for 38 year-old Raymond Jessop continues today as the jury begins the task of deciding his punishment.

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The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following the raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas last year was convicted Thursday of sexual assault of a child.

The punishment for 38 year old Raymond Jessop will be decided Monday as he was found guilty tonight of sexual assault of a child.

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

A former member of a polygamist group has taken the stand in the sexual assault trial of the first group member tried since Texas authorities raided the group's ranch last year.

The Utah Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by attorneys and members of the Fundamentalist LDS Church asking for a supplemental briefing and oral argument.

Attorneys for imprisoned polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs on Tuesday will argue an appeal of his 2007 criminal conviction before the Utah Supreme Court.

With testimony resuming today in the child sexual assault trial in Eldorado of an FLDS Polygamist sect man, the jury heard from a forensic expert and others testifying today.

Two fundamentalist Mormon leaders from Bountiful, B.C., are scheduled to appear in court Wednesday on polygamy charges.

Trial opens in ranch sexual assault case Eight men and four women were selected Wednesday for the jury that will decide the first criminal case stemming from the raid of a polygamist group's ranch last year, and Assistant Attorney General Eric Nichols gave his opening statement, telling jurors that witnesses, documents and DNA will show that a ...