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Fifth Circuit Urges Impeachment of Kent

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Tony Mauro reports, "5th Circuit urges impeachment of federal judge, denies disability status," for National Law Journal.In a one-two punch made public Wednesday on its Web site, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recommended that U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent be impeached and ordered that he not be given disability status. Kent had pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in connection with an investigation into charges that he sexually harassed court employees. He is scheduled to begin serving a 33-month prison sentence next month. Claiming alcoholism and mental illness, Kent sought disability status so he could continue drawing a salary while in prison. But 5th Circuit Chief Judge Edith Jones, in a letter (pdf) Wednesday to Kent's lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, said no, asserting that "a claimant should not profit from his own wrongdoing by engaging in criminal misconduct and then collecting a federal retirement salary for the disability related to the prosecution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 28, 2009 (boomark / email).