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Imprisoned, Facing Impeachment, Kent Resigns Federal Judgeship

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"Facing impeachment trial, U.S. judge resigns," is Suzanne Gamboa's AP report, via the Dallas Morning News.An imprisoned federal judge who's facing an impeachment trial in the Senate in a sex-abuse case says he will resign from the bench at the end of the month. U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent of Texas produced the resignation letter when he was served with a subpoena for his impeachment trial, Terrance Gainer, the Senate sergeant-at-arms, said on Thursday. Kent said in the letter that he will resign effective June 30. His attorney, Dick DeGuerin, was in court and could not be reached for comment. Kent is serving a 33-month sentence in a Massachusetts federal prison for lying to judicial investigators about sexually assaulting two female employees in his court...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 26, 2009 (boomark / email).