Judge Accused Of Shielding Illegal Alien from ICE Gets Brutal News

At the conduct review hearing, Judge Joseph’s counsel emphasized that her client had not been proven guilty of any crime.

“If you were to walk down the street and take a survey of the people you meet, 100% of them would tell you Judge Joseph let an illegal immigrant out the back door of the district court,” the attorney representing her stated in her opening remarks. “Fifty percent of them would say she’s a criminal and should go to jail. Fifty percent would call her a folk hero for what she gave. But she definitely did it.

“It has become such a part of local lore in Boston that the media, for the most part, have dropped the niceties of alleged or charged, and they report and make references to this incident as if a dozen people had seen Judge Joseph get off the bench, escorted the defendant to the door, gave him a hug and wished him Godspeed,” the attorney for her said.

David Jellinek, Medina-Perez’s attorney, signed an immunity agreement with federal officials in exchange for his testimony against Joseph.

Federal prosecutors claimed that Joseph instructed a court clerk to inform the ICE agent present to wait in the lobby, implying that if the defendant was released, he would exit

through the courtroom entrance into the lobby.

Later, Joseph reportedly instructed the courtroom clerk to “go off the record for a moment,” resulting in the courtroom audio recording being turned off for 52 seconds. Continue reading…