A federal judge presiding over the criminal case in which Philadelphia judges have been charged with conspiring to fix traffic citations rejected the argument that their charges should be dismissed.
The crux of the conspiracy charge is that the defendants were in the unique position to give preferential treatment to ticketholders with whom they had political and social connections, said U.S. District Senior Judge Robert F. Kelly of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in an opinion released Monday.
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