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Hearing set for ex-teacher

Tuesday, Dec. 23, 1997 | 11:32 a.m.

A Feb. 4 preliminary hearing has been set in a Henderson Justice Court for a Gorman High School teacher charged under a new law that makes it a crime for a teacher to have sexual relations with a student.

Jack David Patton, 28, was arraigned Monday on 13 counts of sexual misconduct with two female students in homes in Henderson and Boulder City.

Patton was placed on administrative leave Dec. 5 and resigned from his teaching job several days later.

He had been held on $130,000 bail until a hearing last week when Justice of the Peace Kent Dawson agreed to lower the bail and release Patton on house arrest.

A condition of the house arrest is that Patton can't have any contact with the victims or any other former students, although his attorney, Bill Terry, can have such contact as part of the defense investigation.

The law making sexual contact between teachers and students a crime went into effect Oct. 1. The conduct is now a felony by up to five years in prison on each count.

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