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Tejal Mehta has served as an associate justice with the same court and was unanimously selected and sworn in by Judge Stacey Fortes, chief justice of the District Court, on March 2, the Lowell Sun newspaper reported.
Indian-origin woman judge Tejal Mehta has taken oath as the first judge of the district
Gov. Charlie Baker pardoned four people Wednesday, all for non-violent crimes committed a decade or longer ago.
He told the woman he was a police officer and threatened legal ramifications if she reported the incident and his behavior, police said.
The former officer is accused of making sexually inappropriate statements inside a business, offering a woman cash in exchange for sex acts and threatening her.