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TX - What's Next for Samuel Kent in Wake of Guilty Plea?

View the article here 03/02/2009 By John Council and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys - Texas Lawyer In September 2008, U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent of the Southern District of Texas spoke loudly and forcefully when entering a not guilty plea to sex abuse charges. But last week in a Houston courtroom his tone was markedly different as a clearly beaten Kent whispered "guilty" to an obstruction-of-justice charge. "I accept your guilty plea," U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson of the Northern District of Florida told Kent in court. Kent's decision to plead guilty to the obstruction charge on Feb. 23 in exchange for the government dropping five sex abuse charges -- combined with his lawyer's announcement that Kent was "retiring" from the bench -- will cost Kent any chance at a standard judicial retirement salary and most likely his bar card and freedom, five experts say...continue to full post

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