Gomez Licon reported from Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Denis McInerney, the hearing officer assigned to the case by the Supreme Judicial Court, said he will hear the evidence and then make a recommendation afterward based on whether he find Joseph violated the Massachusetts Code of Judicial Conduct. The hearing is expected to last about a week.Much of the first day was dominated by the first witness, lawyer David Jellinek, who told the court he had been hired that day to represent Medina-Perez and had been granted immunity by federal prosecutors. Along with the drug charges, Medina-Perez was in court on a warrant out of Pennsylvania.

After doing some research, Jellinek believed his client wasn’t the same person wanted on the warrant. “I was worried they were going to take a US citizen into custody,” he told the court. “I was quite concerned for my client.”Jellinek failed to convince the ICE agent that they had the “wrong guy” so he came up with a plan to release Medina-Perez out the back door.Fabricant argued that Joseph signal her approval for the plan - including an off the record conversation during a side bar — when she appeared sympathetic to Jellinek’s desire for his client to avoid ICE.

But another attorney for Joseph, Thomas Hoopes, suggest that Jellinek might have misinterpreted Joseph’s comments when she raised the possibility that Medina-Perez could be detained, rather than be released. The prosecutor had agreed Medina-Perez wasn’t the man wanted in Pennsylvania and moved to drop the fugitive from justice charge. She also wasn’t seeking bail on the drug charges so he was free to go.Much will hinge on what was said during that off the record conversation, which lasted only 52 seconds and is being disputed by both sides.

BOSTON (AP) — Roman Anthony was in Worcester, waiting for the 275-mile bus ride that would take him to Allentown, Pennsylvania, for his next Triple-A game, when WooSox manager Chad Tracy told the team their departure would be delayed because someone might need to head an hour east to Boston instead.

“I didn’t really think anything of it, to be honest,” Anthony told reporters in the Red Sox dugout at Fenway Park before making his major league debut Monday night against the Tampa Bay Rays.She best enjoy her time atop the division while she can — Harrison’s presumed next challenger in Amanda Nunes stepping out of retirement and into the cage for a chance to get her belt back.

Dvalishvili retained his 135-pound championship when he tapped out Sean O’Malley in the third round and Harrison made 135-pound champion Julianna Peña quit with five seconds left in the second round in front of a crowd that included Trump and retired heavyweight great Mike Tyson on Saturday night at the Prudential Center.Dvalishvili, a 34-year-old from the country of Georgia, won the belt in a convincing — though not aesthetically pleasing — unanimous decision last year over O’Malley. O’Malley realized after the loss to truly be at his best —

, as a family man — he needed to make difficult lifestyle sacrifices to round himself into peak form.The 30-year-old contender quit smoking marijuana among other bad habits and also ditched his trademark dyed hair. No more cornucopia of colors that turned his locks into rainbows or cotton candy tops. O’Malley sported brown, braided hair for the fight — leaving his fans to wear bright afro wigs in his honor.