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More (disturbing?) details emerging about crimes and sentencing of former Judge Kent

By Douglas A. Berman

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The US Department of Justice has this official press release concerning today's federal sentencing of former federal judge Samuel Kent. It provides this summary review of the charges involved in Kent's indictment and plea: U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for obstruction of justice related to an investigation of a judicial misconduct complaint filed against him.... On Aug. 28, 2008, a grand jury in the Southern District of Texas indicted Kent, who was at that time a sitting U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, on two counts of abusive sexual contact and one count of attempted aggravated sexual abuse for his alleged assaults in 2003 and 2007 on an employee of the Office of the Clerk of Court identified as Person A...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 11, 2009 (boomark / email).

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