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(ContinuedDA drops charges against three slave ranch defendantsMARGARET EDMONSONiStaff WriterJCERRVUXE - Now that twin-ciMipteyer in the Mountain Hwag aUvc Ranch is behind hart and sct Ip begin » IS-year prison sentence, district attorney Ron Sutton says or* panized crime charges against otters is the case will be dmntwi Walter Wesley EilehSStJr, is in Kerr County Jail today following his arrest Friday in Austin. The Court of Criminal Appeals denied his request for a re-hearing and ordered hint to serve the organized crimehanded down by a Kerr County juryin 1986.Sutton said now that BUehrachtis behind bars, charges mUy*defendeats will not he pursued.Charges against the remaining three Slave Ranch rfafrmrfMHf wJjhe dropped, he added.“Most of the others uslate’s witnesses except for Joyce,” Suiton said. “Theircases will bedis-missed because we feel the primary perpetrators have been convicted. It would he too expensive and time* consuming to proceed with any of the cases.*Joyce Eiieheacht, who later di* voiced FJIefaiicht Jr., will not be tried even though she did not testify for the state because Sutton said hertrial could go on as long as the first one.“Certainly the of Ker*rvilie and the taxpayers are satisfiedhappened without spend*another three months and i the case, Sugon said In April 1984, EUteracht Jr. was charged in the February 28 «*vir#f of 4 Interns drifter Anthony Rates along with his father Water Wesley EisScacht Sr., his wife Joyce, m3 workers Mark Hanuten of Los (Contested oa Fam 2A)ing aoot $100. (XX)
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Kerrville Daily Times
Kerrville, Texas, US
Tue, Dec 18, 1990
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