Judge would dismiss charges and give his personal phone number for 'community service’

For seven years, scores of young men in Arkansas saw their traffic citations and misdemeanor criminal charges dismissed - as long as they agreed to perform "community service." The judge overseeing these cases, Joseph Boeckmann, district judge for the First Judicial Circuit of Arkansas, would call each young man up to the bench after a hearing. He would provide each man with his personal telephone number, telling him to call and arrange the "community service." Time and time again, the young men would follow suit, "not knowing what truly lay in store," Peter Halpern, trial attorney for the Department of Justice, wrote in a sentencing memorandum filed in court last week. As their "community service,"

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