Ex-Arkansas judge who bartered in sexual favors sentenced to prison

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

U.S. FEBRUARY 21, 2018 / 7:05 PM / UPDATED 9 HOURS AGO

Ex-Arkansas judge who bartered in sexual favors sentenced to prison

Reuters Staff
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(Reuters) - A former Arkansas district judge has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges that included granting leniency to defendants in his court if they gave him sexual favors in return, U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Joseph Boeckmann, 71, pleaded guilty to charges including wire fraud and witness tampering as well as corruptly using his official position as a district judge, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Boeckmann, a judge in Wynne, Arkansas, resigned in 2016 after a state judicial review commission accused him of taking thousands of lewd photographs of young male defendants and sometimes spanking them. In return, it said, he reduced their sentences or paid their fines from his personal funds.

In a 21-count federal indictment unsealed a few months after he stepped down, U.S. prosecutors said Boeckmann offered to dismiss the case of two young men in exchange for the defendants being photographed naked or being paddled on their bare buttocks, the indictment said.

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[WhiteTara]

1. He is a nasty piece of work, but

he is not the only judge like that. We have a neighbor down the road who was disbarred for the same thing.