Legal Opinion
United States v. Henderson
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided April 25, 2012No. Criminal No. 09-10028-DPWPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
DOUGLAS P. WOODLOCK, District Judge.
In this criminal case the heedless, hapless, and negligent hypocrisy of the defendant confronts the stern, solemn, and implacable sanctimony of the government over a matter of household employment: the periodic engagement of a cleaning lady.
Now before me is the question whether a jury verdict supporting a felony conviction'should stand in a case where an unmarried professional woman — with supervisory responsibility for the government in enforcing immigration laws — employed a person she came to learn was an illegal alien to clean her…
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