A western Massachusetts judge who admitted having an affair with a drug-court-affiliated social worker that included sexual encounters in the courthouse has resigned.
Thomas Estes was suspended indefinitely by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday, and there were calls in the Massachusetts Legislature to remove him from the bench.
There may be a good reason for not prosecuting the naked Harvard College student who took illegal drugs, took off his clothes in the median of a busy street, threw them at a woman, refused to cooperate with cops who showed up, grappled with cops for an extended time on the ground, and then spat blood and saliva at a paramedic.
But the problem is, authorities haven't given any. By that, we don't just mean that they haven't given a good reason.
