1st trial to start in Texas `fight club' case (AP)

[Yahoo! News]

AP - Jury selection began Monday in the trial of the first of six former employees charged in connection with orchestrated late-night fights among residents at a Texas state facility for the developmentally disabled.

Jesse Salazar, 25, was charged with injury to a disabled person after being spotted along with other staff members at the Corpus Christi State School in almost 20 videos of forced bouts that police called a "fight club."

State District Judge Sandra Watts called for a potential juror pool of 100 residents. That large pool should signal the case is "something of significant importance," Watts told the potential jurors.

Salazar's trial was delayed for a month while a co-defendant challenged whether the graphic cell phone videos that were turned in to police could be admitted into evidence. Those videos are expected to be some of the most compelling evidence at Salazar's trial.

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