Milwaukee County judge found guilty of obstructing federal immigration agents in courthouse incident

A assemblage recovered Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan blameworthy of obstructing national migration agents during an effort to service a warrant astatine a courthouse earlier this year.

She faces up to 5 years successful situation connected the felony obstruction count.

Dugan was arrested successful April aft helping Eduardo Flores-Ruiz debar plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who were trying to service him a warrant. Prosecutors said Dugan helped Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer exit her courtroom done a backmost doorway connected April 18, aft learning that ICE agents were successful the gathering to apprehension him.

Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan speaks astatine a pro-Ukraine rally connected Feb. 24, 2025. (Lee Matz/ Milwaukee Independent via AP)

"While we are disappointed successful today’s outcome, the nonaccomplishment of the prosecution to unafraid convictions connected some counts demonstrates the accidental we person to wide Judge Dugan’s sanction and amusement she did thing incorrect successful this matter," Dugan's defence squad said successful a statement. "We person planned for this imaginable result and our defence of Judge Dugan is conscionable beginning. This proceedings required sizeable resources to hole for and nationalist enactment for Judge Dugan’s defence money is captious arsenic we hole for the adjacent signifier of this defense."

The assemblage besides acquitted Dugan connected a misdemeanor number of concealing an idiosyncratic to forestall arrest.

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