Leticia Astacio, Rochester City Court judge ends up behind bars. She has joined a small but not the distinguished group of New York judges who have spent time in jail.

She is not the first Rochester City Court judge to serve behind bars. Instead, in the year 1981, the City Court Judge Carl Scacchetti has been convicted in the federal court of extortion.

Scacchetti has accepted a camera and also a free car repairs in exchange for fixing the sentences.

Unlike Astacio, Scacchetti did not get to do his time locally. Because Scacchetti was a federal criminal, he headed off to the federal prison for a year.

He landed in the Lexington, Kentucky, at a prison which was dealing with some overcrowding because of the Haitian immigrants who had reached American soil in the flimsy boats, and then were arrested.

"We're a little crowded now because we have 194 Haitian detainees," a prison official told to the Democrat and Chronicle on the Scacchetti's first day at the facility.

All across the state there have been many incidents of judges being arrested for drunken driving. In the Monroe County, former County Court Judge, Culver Barr has been convicted for drunken driving in the year 1979. He did not serve any jail time.

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