Former
attorney Kent Booher’s sentencing hearing scheduled for Thursday in
federal court has been reset. Booher was found guilty by a federal
jury last year for felony sexual offense against a minor while on a
sex offender registry, sex trafficking of a child, attempted
production of child pornography and two counts of enticement. He
faces 25 years to life in prison.
Booher’s new sentencing
date is scheduled for Feb. 16. He’s being held at the Knox
County Jail without bond pending sentencing.
Booher’s past could come
into play when he’s sentenced by U.S. District Judge Thomas
Varlan. Booher’s past includes a guilty plea on two counts of
statutory rape in Loudon County Criminal Court in 2014. He was
charged in Roane County General Sessions Court in 2019 with
solicitation of aggravated statutory rape. Booher was also on
the state’s sex offender registry at the time of his indictment
in the federal case.
A presentence investigation report has been put together for Booher’s upcoming sentencing hearing in federal court.
“The United States has no objection to the presentence investigation report as prepared,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Kolman said in a court filing last week.
Booher, 67, had a law practice in Harriman. The Tennessee Supreme Court disbarred him after he pleaded guilty to the sex crimes in Loudon County Criminal Court.