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"Judge Kent asks for 2 separate trials; He's charged with both sexual abuse and obstruction of justice"

"Judge Kent asks for 2 separate trials; He's charged with both sexual abuse and obstruction of justice": Mary Flood had this article Thursday in The Houston Chronicle.

The article begins, "U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent has requested two criminal trials instead of one. Kent, who is scheduled to be tried this month on five felony charges of sexual abuse and one charge of obstructing justice, asked this week that the obstruction charge be dismissed or tried separately. Kent argued that he should have two trials because he must take the stand in a trial of the sexual abuse cases, but he must not testify on his own behalf in the other case. Dick DeGuerin, Kent's lawyer, argued in the filings that Kent would lose his constitutional right not to testify about one charge, or his constitutional right to testify in the other five charges, if all six are tried together."

Full post as published by How Appealing on February 08, 2009 (boomark / email).