Federal prosecutors charged a Massachusetts state judge Thursday with obstruction of justice and perjury, accusing her of helping an illegal immigrant escape deportation authorities last year by letting the man sneak out of her courtroom.
An officer from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had been waiting to arrest the migrant, but Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph made the officer leave her courtroom, promising that if the migrant was released from custody it would be through the building lobby.
Instead, the judge released the migrant and had a courtroom deputy take the man out by a back door, releasing him into the community to avoid ICE, according to a 19-page indictment lodged in federal district court in Massachusetts.
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