Impeached federal judge from Texas resigns ahead of Senate trial

September 24th, 2009 Attorney: Jail says Texas mom competent for trialSAN ANTONIO — The attorney for a Texas mother accused of killing and mutilating her 3-week-old son says a jail psychiatrist has deemed her competent to stand trial. Ed Camara said Thursday that a judge will consider that recommendation at a November competency hearing for Otty Sanchez.

September 21st, 2009 Judge: Ex-US Rep. Jefferson won't get new trialWASHINGTON — A federal judge has denied the request for a new trial by a former Louisiana congressman convicted on corruption charges.

September 8th, 2009 Trial moved for NJ blogger accused of threatsCHICAGO — The trial for a blogger accused of threatening three Chicago-based federal judges has been moved from Illinois to New York. U.S. District Judge Donald Walter issued the order Tuesday, saying that holding Hal Turner's trial somewhere other than Chicago "would best serve not only justice but the appearance of justice." The 47-year-old North Bergen, N.J., man had said in Internet postings in June that three federal appeals judges "deserve to be killed" because they had refused to overturn handgun bans.

September 8th, 2009 Judge denies evangelist's request for new trialTEXARKANA, Ark. — A federal judge in Arkansas has denied evangelist Tony Alamo's request for a new trial on child-sex charges.

September 1st, 2009 Iowa judge moves trial of slaughterhouse managersIOWA CITY, Iowa — A federal judge has moved the trial of four former managers of a kosher slaughterhouse that was the site of a massive immigration raid last year from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Sioux Falls, S.D. U.S. District Court Judge Linda Reade ruled Tuesday that the "prodigious" amount of negative pretrial publicity about Agriprocessors, Inc., and former top manager Sholom Rubashkin caused potential jurors to develop a bias against them.

August 19th, 2009 Judge: Would still close before death-row appealSAN ANTONIO — A Texas judge who closed her court before a death row inmate's last-minute appeal was complete testified in her misconduct trial Wednesday that she would do the same thing again. Judge Sharon Keller, whose career is on the line with this misconduct trial, was asked whether she would take the same action if she got the same phone call again under identical circumstances.

July 22nd, 2009 Congress ends jailed judge's impeachmentWASHINGTON — The Senate has officially dismissed impeachment articles against a federal judge from Texas who is in prison in a sex-abuse case. Samuel B. Kent resigned from the bench June 30 just after the Senate began gathering evidence for his impeachment trial.

July 15th, 2009 Ruling coming Thursday in economic espionage caseSANTA ANA, Calif. — A judge has called a hearing Thursday to issue his ruling in the trial of a Chinese-born engineer accused of stealing trade secrets.

June 26th, 2009 Impeached federal judge to resignWASHINGTON — An imprisoned federal judge facing an impeachment trial in the Senate in a sex-abuse case says he will resign from the bench at the end of the month. U.S. District Judge Sam Kent produced the resignation letter when he was served with a subpoena for his Senate impeachment trial, Terrance Gainer, the Senate sergeant-at-arms, said on Thursday.

June 25th, 2009 DA seeks judge's removal in Texas fundraiser caseCORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A prosecutor has asked for a judge's removal from the case of a prominent Democratic fundraiser, suggesting the judge got campaign contributions from law firms linked to the defendant. Nueces County District Attorney Carlos Valdez filed a motion Wednesday to recuse Judge Manuel Banales (bahn YAL' es) from the case of fundraiser Mauricio Celis.

June 24th, 2009 Senate accepts impeachment articles against judgeWASHINGTON — The Senate began work Wednesday to force an imprisoned federal judge out of office. Following a process scripted by the U.S.

June 19th, 2009 House impeaches federal judge from TexasWASHINGTON — The House on Friday impeached a federal judge imprisoned for lying about sexual assaults of two women in the first such vote since impeaching former President Bill Clinton a decade ago. The impeachment of U.S.

June 17th, 2009 House schedules impeachment vote on federal judgeWASHINGTON — The U.S. House has scheduled a vote for Thursday morning on the impeachment of a Texas federal judge in prison for lying about sexual assaults of two women.

June 10th, 2009 House committee sends judge's impeachment to HouseWASHINGTON — A House committee unanimously approved four articles of impeachment against a federal judge Wednesday in an attempt to remove him from office for lying about sexually assaulting two women. The House Judiciary Committee sent the articles of impeachment against U.S District Judge Samuel Kent of Texas to the House on a 29-0 vote.

June 1st, 2009 Blagojevich could get spring 2010 trialCHICAGO — The federal judge presiding over ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption case is shooting for a trial in spring 2010.