Judge convicted of obstructing ICE is STILL insisting she should be set free
Hannah Dugan, a now-former judge in Wisconsin who was convicted of felony obstruction for interfering with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement by diverting federal agents and then facilitating the escape of a wanted criminal, insisted before her trial that she had the right to do just that.
She still is insisting that.
It now is in post-conviction court filings that Dugan is calling on the court system to overturn her conviction because she claims, like in her pretrial motions, she has immunity for whatever she did.
In December a jury found the 66-year-old Dugan guilty of obstructing ICE officers at the Milwaukee County Courthouse.
Now a report at CourthouseNews explains she is claiming in new court filings that she “files this motion as the first and only judge in United States history to stand trial on an indictment for wholly official, good faith acts untainted by graft, corruption or self dealing and that violated no individual constitutional right that the Reconstruction Amendments protect.”
The claims echo 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 is claiming that all of her actions were within her “judicial duties.”
The report noted, “Prosecutors said Dugan intentionally split up a six-person arrest team so Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, who was in her courtroom for an unrelated pretrial hearing and had lived in the country illegally for more than a decade, could avoid arrest.”
She quit her job after her conviction but promised she still would be fighting the jury’s decision.
Now, in a submission to U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman, she is insisting that her conviction be overturned or she be given a new trial.
The report explained, “As is typical of this kind of motion, Dugan also asserted that the government failed to meet its burden and that the jury’s verdict should be overturned. Specifically, she took issue with whether the prosecution proved that she had the knowledge and intent required to obstruct.”
She also renewed her insistence that she has judicial immunity for whatever she did.
When Dugan directed ICE officers away from her courtroom in the situation last year, Flores-Ruiz quickly left her courtroom through a jury door that led to a private hallway.
WorldNetDaily reported at her conviction that she had been on suspension during her trial.
If her appeals fail, she could be given up to five years in prison.
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, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, 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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