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District court Hagen: A judge as a defendant (archive picture)
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The district court of Hagen has sentenced a judge to three years and ten months imprisonment for perverting the law.
In the process, the 37-year-old lawyer admitted that she simply had not processed several files.
She had a blockage in her head and simply could no longer take care of the cases, she said in the partial confession.
The files were later found in a moving box in the defendants' basement.
According to the indictment, she had also falsified negotiation minutes, backdated judgments and hid files at home in the basement.
The judge is also said to have tried to blame other employees of the Lüdenscheid district court for failing to meet deadlines.
The woman is said to have had full reality control
A psychiatric expert had classified the judge as fully culpable.
In the vast majority of cases, the woman was able to do her work conscientiously and properly.
Therefore, one must assume that she had full control of reality at all times.
In the grounds of the verdict, the court spoke of a "high level of criminal energy" on the part of the accused and, above all, criticized her for the fact that she "had no qualms about passing on her own wrongdoing to others."
The verdict is not yet legally binding.
bbr / dpa
