Biden DOJ Drops Charges on Judge Who Helped Fugitive Escape Federal Custody - Granite Grok

Biden DOJ Drops Charges on Judge Who Helped Fugitive Escape Federal Custody

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Do you remember Shelly Joseph? She’s the Massachusetts judge who helped an illegal alien escape deportation in 2019. With an ICE agent waiting outside her courtroom, Judge Joseph allowed another court officer to escort the fugitive through her chambers to escape. Biden’s DOJ just dropped all the charges.

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The Justice Department has moved “in the interest of justice” to drop all charges against a Newton District Court judge who was accused of thwarting efforts by federal agents to take an undocumented immigrant into custody, drawing an end to a contentious case that had been brought under the Trump administration.

In exchange, Newton District Court Judge Shelley Joseph agreed to admit to certain facts that will be referred “to the state Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct: the forum that is designed to investigate and address alleged misconduct by state judicial officers and to make final recommendations on discipline to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts,” according to a filing by prosecutors in US District Court on Thursday.

 

She was charged with perjury, obstruction of justice, aiding and abetting, obstruction of a federal proceeding, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. She is also guilty as charged and proud of it. She deliberately helped a known fugitive escape a federal agent.

There are folks “on trial” and in detention for wandering into the US Capitol on January 6th after Capitol Police opened the doors who will face a harsher punishment than this so-called Judge.

And while she has not showered her profession in glory, this is Massachusetts. The Commission on Judicial Conduct is likely as rigged as everything else in the state. If she is connected or revered for her liberal jurisprudence, we should expect very little in the form of reprimand, followed by a nothing burger from the state’s highest court.

And we now know why she refused a plea deal. Understanding the system could take years to get to a trial or even a verdict, she sat on her hands and waited for a more favorable DOJ, which she got.

And not a week went by where she didn’t get her paycheck.

Say hello to justice in America.

 

 

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