Legal Ethics
Federal Judge Samuel Kent Indicted on New Sex and Obstruction Charges
Posted Jan 6, 2009, 07:15 pm CST
By Martha Neil
Already facing an unprecedented criminal case concerning his alleged harassment of his former case manager U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent was reportedly federally indicted again late today on new sex charges relating to his alleged mistreatment of another court worker.
Kent was also indicted for obstruction of justice today, concerning his testimony before a judicial disciplinary panel about his conduct with the unidentified court worker to whom the new sex charges relate, reports the Houston Chronicle.
The newspaper article doesn't include any comment from Kent, but he and his counsel, in the past, have repeatedly denied the earlier sex charges made against him.
Kent, who sits on the federal trial court bench in Texas, is expected to… Continue reading...
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