Dismissal coming? Wisconsin judge convicted of obstructing federal immigration agents gets special privilege

By Bob Unruh

Judge Hannah Dugan
Judge Hannah Dugan

Convicts caught up in criminal cases almost always want extra hearings for judges to review over and over their calls on acquittals, new trials, jury verdict reversals and the like.

It often does not happen.

But it has for one convict in Wisconsin who was a judge until she quit after being found guilty of obstructing federal agents in her politicized agenda to protect illegal aliens in her court.

It was announced this week that Hannah Dugan, convicted of blocking agents from the illegal alien in her courtroom for other offenses from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, would not be sentenced as scheduled.

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Instead, the federal judge in the case agreed to hear arguments from defense lawyers who, yet again, are claiming that the case should be dismissed.

A report posted online by Fox6 said the sentencing for Dugan, formerly a Milwaukee County judge caught on video protecting the illegal, was abandoned.

Instead, “A federal judge will instead hear arguments for a defense motion that he reconsider a prior order that denied dismissal of the case,” the report said.

Dugan was convicted by a jury, but then requested a new trial and acquittal, but U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman rejected that request.

Now Adelman apparently has reversed course and is hearing arguments on that plan.

Dugan had been indicted on counts of obstructing federal agents and helping an illegal alien avoid arrest.

Prosecutors charged that Dugan, wearing her judicial robes, recruited another judge in robes, to emphasize their authority, and told the federal agents to go to another office in the courthouse, then directed the illegal alien and his lawyer to leave through a back door in her courtroom.

Dugan was convicted of a felony in the case, later resigning her post.

WorldNetDaily reported that Dugan, after her conviction, eventually resigned her post.

The Milwaukee Sentinel Journal said her defense team informed Gov. Tony Evers of her decision in a letter.

“As you know, I am the subject of unprecedented federal legal proceedings, which are far from concluded but which present immense and complex challenges that threaten the independence of our judiciary. I am pursuing this fight for myself and for our independent judiciary,” she claimed.

“However, the Wisconsin citizens that I cherish deserve to start the year with a judge on the bench in Milwaukee County Branch 31 rather than have the fate of that Court rest in a partisan fight in the state legislature.”

WorldNetDaily reported at her conviction that she had been on suspension during her trial.

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.”

Video surveillance shows the illegal alien and his lawyer escaping through a “jury door.”

Dugan tried to suppress most of the evidence contained in an audio recording made in the court that day.

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Bob Unruh

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is currently a news editor for the WND News Center, and also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially. Read more of Bob Unruh's articles here.


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