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What’s Better than Knowing the Judge?

Kelly S. Ballentine, 43, got three tickets — two alleging parking violations, and another alleging that her automobile registration had expired. So, authorities said, she dismissed them. Ballentine is a district judge in Lancaster, Pa. The $268.50 she saved on the tickets, though, may cost her much more: she’s now facing a dozen criminal charges, six of them felonies. And she’s been placed on leave — paid leave, because, said the county’s president judge, “I have no power to suspend her.” (AC/York Daily Record) ...And unlike her, he doesn’t do what he has no power to do.
Original Publication Date: 04 March 2012
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.

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