Once-Indicted Judge Fights Against Reprimand in ICE Evasion Case

Massachusetts’ high court Monday labored with whether and how to discipline a state judge who was cleared of high-profile claims she helped an immigrant evade federal agents but may have violated other judicial rules.

The state’s Commission for Judicial Conduct told the Supreme Judicial Court during oral argument that Judge Shelley Joseph’s conduct was deserving of a public reprimand.

Federal prosecutors during the first Trump administration indicted Joseph on obstruction-of-justice charges, alleging she helped a defendant slip out of a rear courthouse door while Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents waited out front. The case presaged the nearly identical prosecution and ...