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Polygamist Hearing Has Chaotic First Day

State plans to relocate sect's 416 children

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 17, 2008 5:07 PM CDT

(Newser) – Lawyers for the state of Texas told a chaotic, objection-filled hearing today they would press for psychiatric evaluations and genetic testing of all members of a polygamist sect, the New York Times reports. On the first day of a custody hearing to determine the fate... Read full story »

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State plans to relocate sect's 416 children

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