Booher guilty on all counts

Kent Booher didn’t have to do prison time in his state sex crime case. He might not be as fortunate in his federal one.

A jury of seven men and five women found Booher guilty on all five counts in his federal trial on Monday.

“The next step in this process is for the court to impose sentence,” U.S. District Judge Thomas Varlan said.

Varlan set the sentencing hearing for Aug. 18.

“The defendant will remain detained pending sentencing,” Varlan said.

The federal marshals slapped the cuffs on Booher and led him away as he was having a few final words with his attorney.

The five-day trial was held at the federal courthouse in Knoxville. Booher was found guilty of 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.

The jury returned to the courtroom shortly after 3 p.m. The verdict form was handed to the clerk, who read the verdict.

Booher, who once had a law practice in Harriman, pled guilty on two counts of statutory rape in Loudon County Criminal Court in 2014. He didn’t go to prison time, but was placed on the state sex offender registry. The Tennessee Supreme Court disbarred him as an attorney after the state conviction.