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Judge Kent (finally!) resigns as he is served impeachment papers in prison

By Douglas A. Berman

Thanks to this post from How Appealing linking all the press coverage, I see that convicted felon Judge Samuel Kent made some news from his prison cell this afternoon.  Here is a report from the Houston Chronicle: U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent resigned via an unusual no-frills letter that he hand-delivered in prison to two Senate officials who had come to serve a summons on him as part of ongoing impeachment proceedings in the Congress of the United States. The resignation of Kent, a convicted felon who had continued to collect his $174,000 a year salary in prison, was announced to the surprised participants at the first meeting of the Senate?s impeachment trial committee on Thursday afternoon in Washington D.C.  The committee is chaired by Senator Claire McMcCaskill, D-Missouri, who announced Kent had handed in a resignation, effective June 30th, 2009, on plain paper to the Senate?s sergeant-at-arms during an official prison visit...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).