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| Kent moved to protective custody in Florida |
| By chron.com |
| Published: 11/09/2009 |
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WASHINGTON — Imprisoned former federal Judge Samuel Kent has been quietly transferred from a federal prison hospital in Massachusetts to protective custody at an undisclosed location in the Florida state prison system because of unspecified concerns over his safety, officials said Friday. Federal and state officials said the transfer appeared to be a precaution against a potential inmate attack on the longtime jurist rather than a response to any specific incident. Houston attorney Dick DeGuerin, who represents Kent, said “it would be unusual, almost an aberration” for the 60-year-old former jurist to encounter anyone inside prison who he had once sentenced because most of Kent's caseload had been civil law and maritime cases. DeGuerin said he was trying to find out the reason for the transfer, adding, “but the speculation is that they're just being overly cautious.” Kent has 28 months remaining on a 33-month sentence for lying to a federal judicial panel about sexual assaults on two women who worked for him at federal courthouses in Houston and Galveston over the course of an 18-year judicial career. Neither Kent nor his family had expressed concern about safety in prison, DeGuerin said. Kent began his sentence on June 15 at the 1,300-bed Devens Federal Medical Center in Ayer, Mass. Read More. |
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