William Mallory Kent

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William Mallory Kent (born July 24, 1952 in Live Oak, Florida) is an American lawyer , who is most noted for his appellate work, including the precedent setting federal sentencing guideline case, Stinson v. United States [1], 508 U.S. 36 (1993), which has been cited in over 1,000 other federal appellate decisions, including both Blakely v. Washington [2], 542 U.S. 296 (2004), and United States v. Booker [3], 543 U.S. 220 (2005), the cases which rewrote federal guideline sentencing law. The Stinson decision has been cited in over 3,700 appellate briefs and over 250 law reviews.

William Kent graduated first in his class from a private preparatory boarding school, the Bolles School [4] in Jacksonville, Florida. He received his undergraduate education at Harvard University [5], Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he graduated cum laude with a major in German Literature in 1975. He also passed the language qualification in Arabic while at Harvard. He studied abroad at both Ludwig Maximillians Universitaet [6] in Munich, Germany and at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań [7], Poland.