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The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has delayed the federal trial of former attorney and convicted sex offender Kent Booher.
Booher’s criminal troubles continue to mount. Booher, a disbarred attorney from Roane County, was indicted by a federal grand jury in September for enticement and felony sexual offense against a minor while on a sex offender registry.
A superseding indictment was filed against him on Tuesday. In addition to the previous counts, he’s now also charged with sex trafficking of a child, attempted production of child pornography and another count of enticement. He was arraigned on the superseding indictment on Wednesday.
His original Nov. 25 trial date was reset to April 7, 2020. But now due to the pandemic, will be rescheduled until later this year.
Booher is being held at the Blount County Jail in Maryville without bond while the case is pending.
Booher landed on the Tennessee Sexual Offender Registry after he pleaded guilty on two counts of statutory rape in Loudon County Criminal Court in 2014. The Tennessee Supreme Court disbarred him following the conviction.
