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"Accused judge still judges others"

"Accused judge still judges others": Houston's ABC 13 Eyewitness News provides a report that begins, "He's accused of sexually abusing two of his employees, but federal district judge Samuel Kent is still on the bench, hearing cases. He's the first federal judge ever charged with sex crimes."

Also today, the Judicial Council of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit posted online this order issued last Friday regarding the pending Complaint of Judicial Misconduct against United States District Judge Samuel B. Kent under the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980. Attached to the Judicial Council's order is a copy of the superseding indictment issued against Judge Kent earlier this month.

And yesterday in The Houston Chronicle, columnist Rick Casey had an essay that begins, "Next month's trial of U.S. District Judge Sam Kent is likely to be a sad and sordid affair."

Full post as published by How Appealing on January 12, 2009 (boomark / email).