Boston judge set to face hearing for helping illegal migrant slip out of court to avoid ICE agents in 2018

A Massachusetts justice is acceptable to look an upcoming proceeding for helping an amerciable migrant gaffe retired of tribunal to debar ICE agents successful 2018 — mirroring the caller apprehension of a Wisconsin magistrate successful an eerily akin case.

Boston Municipal Court Judge Shelley Joseph volition beforehand a nationalist proceeding connected June 9 implicit her alleged “willful judicial misconduct” aft she allowed the twice-deported migrant to fly earlier helium could beryllium nabbed by migration officials, the Boston Herald reported.

The proceeding earlier the Commission connected Judicial Conduct volition replicate an existent trial, which means her lawyers volition person the accidental to contiguous grounds successful her defense.

Joseph is accused of violating the “code of judicial conduct” by “failing to comply with the law.”

She was initially charged by a Trump appointee, erstwhile US Attorney Andrew Lelling, for conspiracy to obstruct justness and obstruction of justice for allegedly helping Jose Medina-Perez, who was facing narcotics charges, permission her tribunal via a backdoor erstwhile ICE showed up with a detainer.

However, the charges were dropped aft the justice surrendered, and her lawsuit alternatively moved to the commission.

The committee — a authorities bureau that oversees probes into alleged misconduct by those admitted to the seat — filed charges against Joseph aboriginal past year.

The update successful her lawsuit comes aft Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested past Friday connected charges of helping a Mexican amerciable migrant evade the feds successful her courtroom.

Dugan, who has been connected the Milwaukee County seat for astir a decade, was accused of obstruction of justness and concealing Eduardo Flores-Ruiz from apprehension pursuing a pre-trial proceeding earlier this month.