Seattle Adult Entertainment: Key witness in Hecht case faces charges
Hesketh is the admitted drug addict who claims Hecht threatened to kill him last summer during a confrontation in downtown Tacoma.
The state Attorney General’s Office has charged Hecht with felony harassment in the case.
State prosecutors contend the judge threatened Hesketh because he’d heard the younger man was talking about selling sex to him, according to court documents filed by assistant attorney general John Hillman.
Hecht has pleaded not guilty to threatening Hesketh and to a separate misdemeanor charge alleging he purchased sex from another young man. The judge is to go to trial in September.
The state’s Commission on Judicial Conduct also has charged Hecht with violating judicial canons by allegedly directing “threatening behavior” toward Hesketh after the judge came to believe he was “talking to others about respondent’s conduct with young male prostitutes.”
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