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Galveston federal judge pleads guilty, retires in disgrace

I've not been tracking the downfall of allegedly lecherous federal district Judge Samuel Kent of Galveston, who today pled guilty to obstruction of justice charges and announced his retirement. But Mary Flood at the Houston Chronicle brings the news that:U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of justice today and retired from the bench, avoiding a trial on that charge and five others accusing him of sexually abusing two female employees. Kent was scheduled to see a jury selected this morning for his trial on all six felony counts. Few federal judges ever go to trial, but his would have been the first in which a federal judge was accused of sexual charges. ``Judge Kent believes that this settlement is in the best interest of all involved,'' his attorney, Dick DeGuerin, said after this morning's hearing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 23, 2009 (boomark / email).