(AP) – A federal judge has sentenced a former Arkansas judge
to five years in prison after he admitted giving young male defendants lighter sentences in exchange for sexual favors.A lawyer for 72-year-old Joseph Boeckmann asked the judge Wednesday for a term of home detention. Prosecutors said 37 months in prison was necessary because Boeckmann was a judge with a 20-year history of abusing young men who appeared before him.
to five years in prison after he admitted giving young male defendants lighter sentences in exchange for sexual favors.A lawyer for 72-year-old Joseph Boeckmann asked the judge Wednesday for a term of home detention. Prosecutors said 37 months in prison was necessary because Boeckmann was a judge with a 20-year history of abusing young men who appeared before him.
Authorities said the FBI investigated Boeckmann for similar crimes twice in the 1990s when he was a deputy prosecutor. He wasn’t charged after he agreed to resign.
U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker had warned Boeckmann she might impose a tougher penalty than that negotiated during a plea bargain. She said his crimes deserve a tougher sentence.
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