A Boston, Massachusetts, judge accused of trying to help an illegal immigrant avoid arrest by ICE apparently had no idea about the escape plan, and only inadvertently assisted in its execution, a state investigation has concluded.
Judge Shelley Richmond Joseph did let the illegal immigrant leave her courtroom and go back to the courthouse’s lock-up area, where the migrant’s lawyer and a court officer worked together to get the person out of the building.
But Hearing Officer Denis J. McInerney’s investigation discovered that Judge Joseph didn’t know about such intentions. She only let the migrant go back to jail because she assumed he needed to talk to his counsel in private.
An interpreter and a lawyer present made assertions to the contrary, which McInerney explicitly rejected as untrustworthy.
