Judge Indicted for Helping an Alien Elude ICE — But What About the Prosecutor and Defense Counsel?
By Dan Cadman on April 26, 2019
As my colleague Andrew Arthur has written, a Massachusetts state judge has been indicted, along with a court security officer, for federal charges of conspiracy and obstructing justice (and the court officer for perjury also), as the result of aiding a deportable alien from the Dominican Republic to escape from arrest by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who was dispatched to the courthouse to take him into custody.
The reports of the circumstances are both disturbing and straightforward: The judge directed the ICE agent to wait outside the courtroom, then ordered that recording of the hearing cease so that she could discuss with the prosecutor, the defendant, and his attorney how to go about frustrating the ICE agent in his duty.
https://cis.org/Cadman/Judge-Indicted-Helping-Alien-Elude-ICE-What-About-Prosecutor-and-Defense-Counsel