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33-Month Sentence for Federal Judge Samuel Kent in Obstruction Case
Samuel Kent could have gotten up to 20 years in prison today, after pleading guilty earlier this year to a federal obstruction of justice charge.
But prosecutors recommended only a three-year prison term for the 59-year-old Kent. And he got slightly less than that from Senior U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, who was brought in from Florida to hear the Houston-based case. Vinson, who wasn't bound by the government's three-year recommendation, sentenced Kent to 33 months in prison, according to the Associated Press and the Houston Chronicle.
Kent, who had been on the bench since 1990, pleaded in February to the obstruction charge. It was related to his admitted nonconsensual sexual contact between 2003… Continue reading...
