Alan C. Posted March 19, 2013 Posted March 19, 2013 Pa. judge who fixed own parking tickets ordered to pay five times the amount A judge...fined magisterial district court judge Kelly Ballentine $1,500 for fixing three of her own parking tickets – a charge five times more expensive than the original fines... Ballentine pleaded guilty...to three misdemeanor counts of tampering with public records, which carry maximum penalties of up to two years in prison. But Chester County (Pa.) Judge Charles Smith opted for the portentous fine in lieu of jail or probation because Ballentine, 44, is a first-time offender with an “otherwise reputable background,” he said. Assistant Attorney General Anthony Forray said Ballentine did not try to “rip off Lancaster County for $269.59,” – the cost of her parking fines, but she "was given a certain amount of trust, and she abused that trust." In court, Ballentine’s attorney said that she showed a “major lapse in judgment” when she dismissed the tickets given to her by city police...
lyghtningrod Posted March 19, 2013 Posted March 19, 2013 "What's done is done, but go on and maybe you will work all the harder to do the job you were elected to do,"Judge Smith said. Ok, so she breaks the law egregiously, but she can go ahead and do her job of enforcing the law... It's like Geithner, the tax cheat, put in charge of the Treasury. More example of government logic, where you can prove anything.
Mick Bynes Posted March 19, 2013 Posted March 19, 2013 Wow, what happened to "making an example"? It has been thrown out of the window. That judge thought he was going to get away with it, just because he's a judge.
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