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Associated Press - August 10, 2009 4:15 AM ET
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - Jury selection is scheduled to begin in the trial of a former employee at a state facility charged for his role in orchestrated fights among developmentally disabled residents.
Twenty-5-year-old Jesse Salazar is charged with injury to a disabled person. Two other former employees of the Corpus Christi State School were scheduled to go on trial Monday, but one pleaded guilty Friday and the other's trial was postponed.
Almost 20 videos dating to 2007 were discovered in March on a cell phone that was found at a clothing store and later turned in to police. The videos showed staff at the school forcing residents into fights.
Eleven staff members were identified in the videos and six were charged. None of those charged still works at the school.
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