A federal jury finds Milwaukee judge guilty of obstructing immigration agents

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MILWAUKEE — A federal jury found Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan guilty Thursday of obstructing immigration agents as they attempted to arrest an undocumented immigrant defendant last April. 

Eduardo Flores-Ruiz was appearing in Dugan's court on misdemeanor battery charges. Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican national, was arrested outside the courthouse after a short chase by the immigration agents and has since been deported.

A grand jury indicted Dugan the following month. She denied any wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty to the federal charges of obstructing a proceeding, a felony, and of concealing an individual to prevent an arrest, a misdemeanor. She was found not guilty of the misdemeanor charge.
 
During the trial, federal agents testified Dugan seemed "angry" when she approached them in the public hallway where they were waiting to arrest Flores-Ruiz after his hearing. They testified that she asked the agents if they had a judicial warrant, sent them to speak with the chief judge, rushed Flores-Ruiz's case through, and allowed him and his attorney to leave the courtroom through the jury door, which led back to a public hallway.

During the government's closing argument, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelly Watzka said Dugan conducted a "round-up" of federal agents and sent them to the chief judge's office.

Watzka said Dugan then created an "escape route" for Flores-Ruiz when she let him exit a door defendants don't usually go through. Prosecutors also played courtroom audio of Dugan saying she'd "take the heat" for her actions.

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[Frozenbeernuts 2,427]

Good news to wake up to. The world is healing.

[Tree of Knowledge 2,251]

Sentencing will be interesting 

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11 minutes ago, Tree of Knowledge said:

Sentencing will be interesting 

Charge her with treason and hang her after the guilty verdict.

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4 minutes ago, lickin_starfish said:

Charge her with treason and hang her after the guilty verdict.

I wish. 

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24 minutes ago, Tree of Knowledge said:

Sentencing will be interesting 

I’m satisfied with the conviction. Sentence her to get some therapy or something like that. She has real bad TDS. 

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They need to make an example of her for all the other TDS-addled judiciary