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"5th Circuit council backs impeachment for Houston judge"

"5th Circuit council backs impeachment for Houston judge": The Houston Chronicle has a news update that begins, "The Fifth Circuit judicial council and Chief Judge Edith Jones dealt a double blow today to convicted U.S. District Court Judge Samuel Kent, 59, by formally recommending his impeachment for criminal misconduct and by rejecting his bid to be certified as disabled -- a status that might have allowed Kent to collect judicial retirement benefits indefinitely even while in prison."

You can access at this link today's order of the Judicial Council of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Full post as published by How Appealing on May 27, 2009 (boomark / email).