Conviction affirmed for judge who interfered with federal immigration agents
The conviction of an activist Wisconsin judge who obstructed the work of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers doing their duties in trying to arrest an illegal alien criminal has been affirmed by a federal judge.
U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman confirmed in a decision regarding the case against now-former Judge Hannah Dugan that the federal immigration enforcement obstruction conviction will stand.
Adelman found evidence presented at Dugan’s trial in December “was enough to find she obstructed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers attempting to make an arrest outside her courtroom in April 2025,” according to a report at Courthousenews.
Dugan, who has insisted all along that she was within her authority to scheme to let the criminal flee from federal officers, had asked Adelman in January to overturn her conviction or order a new trial.
Dugan argued against the validity of the warrant for a defendant appearing in her court, the jury instructions, her own intent and the court’s interpretation of the law.
She had claimed in pre-trial motions that her authority as a judge allowed her to do what she did, and she renewed that claims after conviction.
Adelman’s response: “As I noted in denying the motion to dismiss, there was no basis for granting immunity simply because the indictment described conduct that could be considered ‘part of a judge’s job.'”
Adelman said, “Defendant takes issue with the concept that a corrupt motive can make lawful acts unlawful … it would be improper to hold [the law] cannot be applied to the conduct at issue here just because difficult line drawing issue may arise in other cases.”
The situation was that Eduardo Flores-Ruiz was scheduled to appear before Dugan when she learned immigration officers were in the hallway waiting to arrest him.
In rage, she confronted the officers, told them to go see the senior judge, then allowed Flores-Ruiz to flee through a “jury door” to which the public generally doesn’t have access.
He was caught anyway.
But, the report explains, Dugan “recruited” another judge to help her confront the officers.
Recordings of her statements did not help her case. The courtroom audio confirmed she told the clerk, “I’ll take the heat,” and telling the other judge she “tried to help that guy.”
She quit her post in January after her conviction in December.
WorldNetDaily reported on her post-conviction claims that she asserted “immunity” for whatever she did.
The claims echoed her insistence before the trial that ICE lacks authority to make arrests inside the county courthouse and she was enforcing the law by telling officers to go away.
She claimed her actions were within her “judicial duties.”
Devastating testimony during Dugan’s trial came from Judge Kristela Cervera, who told the courtroom that she was shocked by lawyers praising her for helping the illegal alien criminal escape.
She described attorneys pumping their fists and telling her, “You go, Judge,” and saying, “Judge, you’re ‘goated’ now.”
Cervera explained she was “pulled into” the fight by Dugan, “who she said admitted that she was trying to help Eduardo Flores-Ruiz as he evaded officers.”
Cervera testified she didn’t want to “walk in the hallway with my robe on,” but Dugan told her to do exactly that, so agents would “see them in their robes as a sign of authority.”
Dugan tried to suppress most of the evidence contained in an audio recording made in the court that day.
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