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District court Hagen (archive picture): Judge in the dock
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In Hagen, the trial against a judge from the Lüdenscheid district court began with a partial confession.
The public prosecutor's office accuses her of forging minutes of negotiations, backdated judgments and hiding files at home in the basement.
The lawyer has to answer to the Hagen district court, among other things, for perversion of the law and forgery of documents.
The process is expected to last until mid-November.
Don't worry about the consequences
The 37-year-old confessed that from 2018 onwards she simply stopped dealing with several criminal or family law matters.
Instead, she took the files home and finally stored them in a moving box in the basement.
"I was totally blocked, I just couldn't work on these files," said the judge.
But she never wanted to harm anyone and simply didn't think about the consequences of her actions.
bbr / dpa
