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Sex Scandal Judge Resigns

May 25, 2018

A western Massachusetts judge who admitted having an affair with a drug-court-affiliated social worker that included sexual encounters in the courthouse has resigned.

Thomas Estes was suspended indefinitely by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday, and there were calls in the Massachusetts Legislature to remove him from the bench.

Estes’s lawyer released a statement saying the judge is disappointed with the outcome.

“Judge Estes was not only a good judge, he was an outstanding judge,” the lawyer’s statement says, according to MassLive.com.

The lawyer said the now-former judge will continue to fight in federal court a claim by the female social worker that the judge sexually harassed her.


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