In a deal struck with the Department of Justice, Newton District Court Judge Shelley Richmond Joseph agreed to a review by the Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct. The commission will make disciplinary recommendations to the state's high court..
after they were accused of helping a defendant in Joseph's courtroom avoid arrest by an immigration officer in 2018.
The federal government filed a motion Thursday to dismiss three of the four counts against Joseph, including obstructing justice and conspiracy. The government also deferred prosecuting a perjury charge against MacGregor. Cunha led the inquiry into Joseph's case after Massachusetts US Attorney Rachael Rollins was recused from the case because she filed suit when she was Suffolk County DA to prevent federal immigration officials from arresting people in courthouses.
"This was a patently political indictment, blindly grounded in prosecutorial ambition," Joseph's attorney Thomas Hoopes said in a statement."We are hopeful that it will result in a long deserved dismissal - which we take as full and complete exoneration."
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