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- ↑ Lubbock newspaper report on 1997 arrest Archived May 25, 1997, at the Wayback Machine
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- ↑ Pohlen, Jerome (2006). Oddball Texas: A Guide to Some Really Strange Places. Chicago Review Press. p. 198. ISBN 9781569764725.
- ↑ State AG's report Archived July 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Lisa Sandberg (July 6, 2007). "Ex-state Sen. Nixon in trouble with the law again: He was jailed 10 years ago in a sex case and now faces charges of official oppression". Houston Chronicle .
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