Jury Selection in First Polygamist Trial
Members of the jury continue to be selected in the first criminal trial as a result of the raid of a polygamist cult’s ranch in Texas last year. Over one hundred potential jurors have been asked to come back on Tuesday. Lawyers are seeking twelve jurors and two alternates for the criminal trial of Raymond Jessop, age thirty-eight.
Jessop is the first person to go on trial from the Yearning for Zion Ranch since authorities raided the compound in April 2008. Jessop faces up to twenty years in federal prison if convicted of charges of sexual assault of a child due to his alleged marriage to an underage girl. His alleged wife, according to court documents, gave birth to a child at age sixteen.
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