MASSACHUSETTS JUDGE, COURT OFFICER CHARGED WITH OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE:

Judge Joseph, the indictment alleges, allowed an illegal immigrant wanted by immigration officers to leave Newton District Court without being detained for possible deportation.

“I’m not gonna allow them to come in here,” the judge is alleged to have told the man’s defense attorney. She was basically keeping an ICE officer on the outside of the courtroom.

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