


Judge Shelley Joseph, the $207,855-a-year Boston Municipal Court magistrate, will face a public hearing in June for her “willful judicial misconduct” for allowing an illegal immigrant to slip out a side door to avoid ICE agents.
The Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct told the Herald Tuesday that a hearing is tentatively set for June 9 in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. Her attorney, Thomas Hoopes, could not immediately be reached to see if he will go forward with the hearing or strike a deal beforehand.
Joseph is accused of violating the “Code of Judicial Conduct” by “failing to comply with the law,” as the Herald has reported.
Joseph was charged by former U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling, a Trump appointee, of helping a twice-deported illegal immigrant evade federal immigration officials in 2018 while in her Newton court.
Those charges were dropped, and the case was kicked over to the Commission on Judicial Conduct, which set forth its stinging summary of the case that now falls under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
The commission rattled off a series of charges — including Joseph’s failure “to cooperate and be candid and honest with judicial disciplinary authorities.”
This is a developing story …