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Can anyone report on Judge Samuel Kent’s sentencing record?

Before diving even further into all the interesting sentencing issues raised by U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent’s guilty plea (basics here), I thought it might be useful to hear about Judge Kent’s record as a sentencing judge.  Because the US sentencing system does not keep judge-specific data, there is no way to formally look up Judge Kent’s sentencing record during his 18 years as a federal district judge.  But I am hopeful that some readers in the know from direct experiences might be able to use the comment to report on his basic sentencing reputation.