Judge Upholds Wisconsin Judge’s Conviction for Helping Illegal Alien Evade ICE
“The problem for the defense is that this case did not involve some random encounter on the street. It was a targeted operation, conducted pursuant to agency procedures…”
A federal judge upheld former Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan’s conviction of obstruction of justice for helping an illegal alien evade ICE.
Dugan resigned in January after she was convicted.
In April, federal court judge Lynn Adelman denied motions filed by Dugan, including a judgment of acquittal or a new trial.
Dugan’s attorneys asked Adelman to reconsider, citing a case out of Virginia.
The team claimed that ICE agents attempting “to serve a warrant at the Milwaukee County Courthouse for Flores-Ruiz’s arrest did not meet the legal definition of ‘pending proceeding.'”
Adelman once again upheld the conviction:
The problem for the defense is that this case did not involve some random encounter on the street. It was a targeted operation, conducted pursuant to agency procedures, including the issuance of an arrest warrant for a specific person, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz. After the arrest of Flores-Ruiz, ICE followed its procedures for reinstatement of the previous order of removal, determining that he should be removed from the country. While this did not involve a contested hearing in front of an immigration judge or other authority, that is because Flores-Ruiz declined to challenge the previous order or make a claim for asylum.
Defendant also compares what happened in this case to mere police activity, similar to what law enforcement does every day, e.g, obtaining warrants and then arresting suspects. (Oral Arg. Tr. at 7, 26, 29.) Defendant argues that ICE was acting as a law enforcement agency here. But this ignores the fact that, unlike, say, the FBI, ICE can issue its own warrants and adjudicate and effectuate a removal, as it did with Flores-Ruiz, without the involvement of a court. This makes a difference under § 1505. See Kelley, 36 F.3d at 1127.
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That was such a nice way of saying that she was Laughed out of court again.
Give it up. Retire, go on the talking circuit and get yourself a job at some lefty non-profit, they’ll love to have you on their board.
She has a promising future as a pancake tester.
Short future though
She tested ICE and got burned. Maybe she will do better testing pancakes.
In jail
There’s the small matter of her sentence. You seem too confident that there won’t be one.
Just don’t expect a judge that tried to enable a hostile foreign invader remain in this country to face any penalty at all.
Subotai Bahadur
We most certainly don’t. An upstanding citizen with no previous record or convictions (other than to whatever lawbreaking invader who hates America the most at the time) Maybe she will get her own show on CNN, is what we expect.
Why don’t you expect that?
Noone expects the Spanish Inquisition!
https://youtu.be/psMMKgvpGfg?si=bnmZwfkNFjXkA0pe
I didn’t expect a conviction
Bless her heart. For the first time in her adult life, this fat sow is coming to grips with the fact that she is in no way special.
Wouldn’t that be some proggie Karma if she found herself with a ‘trans woman’ cell mate?
As a general rule, I am hoping for a sentence that includes penalties of:
a. Fines: $250,000 to $500,000
b. Prison Time: 5 up to 10 years.
Make the liberals repeat their favorite phrase:
“No one is above the law.”
The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless, longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what’s right
As sure as Mounjaro rises like Ozempic above my massive belly
I seek to cure what’s deep inside
Frightened of this thing that’s on my bum….
Gonna take a lot to drag me away from food
There’s something that a hunnerd men or more could never do…
Why do leftists not understand that immigration cases don’t move through criminal courts? Those idiots are the ones who don’t want illegal entry or visa overstays to be criminal and they can’t have it both ways.
But it is entirely consistent for them to want exactly that. They want the rules to work in their favor whether they actually do or not.
If it wasn’t for double standards liberals would have none at all.
Nice to see justice actually served.
Yes. But how AWFUL for the fat robed bimbo.
What happens next?
A GoFundMe for the costs of the appeal.
Hahahahaha!
Isn’t she out of appeals by now?
No, she hasn’t even been to the appeals court. This appeal was to the trial judge.
Sentence
Wonderful! I hope it isn’t a slap, probation, or community service. Let the door slam behind her.
Branca seemed to think aggravating factors indicate 1-2 year custodial hitch
@TheBrancashow on x.com
Unless she comes up with new grounds for an appeal to the trial judge, next comes sentencing, presumably to be followed by an appeal to the appeals court.
While I don’t know Wi I have some personal experience with appeals, albeit NJ title 39 motor vehicle code
-It’s typically done on examination of the record below i.e. transcript
This makes trial court’s interpretation of witness testimony largely indelible.
The paths to expand the record are more narrow than my cardiac calcium score
If the law is on your side, pound law
If the facts are on your side, pound facts
If you’re Hannah ‘Diner’ Dugan, pound sand!
This entire case has been about the law, not the facts. The facts are undisputed. So any appeal will also be about the law. For instance this latest decision by Judge Adelman, that an administrative arrest is an “official proceeding” and therefore she was properly convicted of obstructing it; she can and surely will appeal that. She’ll also appeal Adelman’s decision that she didn’t have official immunity, because helping a fugitive escape was not part of her official duties.
Hannah ‘Diner’ Dugan
Gonna take a lot to drag me away from food
There’s something that a hundred men or more could never do… 🙂
Its so refreshing to read the simple facts and logic clearly presented by just a competent judge, compared to the moralizing drivel, entirely devoid of rational basis, that fills the entire opinions issued by the likes of Sotomayor and Jackson.
Dugan’s lawyers must be in a state of total shock.
First, they surely expected the liberal Lynn Adelman (a federal district judge dude appointed by scumbag Billy) to dismiss the whole case based on pre-trial motions.
Oops, sorry. Didn’t happen. No liberal dice there. Try again.
OK, It proceeds to trial and the jury convicts and then, worse yet, Adelman UPHOLDS the conviction despite their motions otherwise.
More big oops.
Then, they ask for reconsideration and get told by Adelman to screw off yet again, their new BS reasoning notwithstanding.
Defeat cubed. Oops after oops after oops.
It remains to be seen what sentence Adelman decides on, but I’m impressed by the fact that he keeps handing defeats to this goofy, obese (now former) state judge, who thinks she can violate federal law with impunity to help some miscellaneous illegal alien.
I hope he throws the book at her, but it doesn’t matter much — she’s already resigned the bench and will probably be disbarred — not likely that she’ll ever again sit in judgment of anyone.
Or play her stupid little illegal immigrant games.
The safer move would have been for her to have sex with the illegal in her chambers.
Jobs not even an immigrant will do, Exhibit A.
Unfortunately, the judiciary is full of politically connected mediocre lawyers in black robes. Maybe getting rid of the robes would help.
Make them wear those funny white powdered wigs again.
As a guy who praticed law for 40 years, I naturally despise most judges, 90% of whom are tin pot dictators who believe that law doesn’t apply to them and rule by whim. We can’t put too many of these creeps in jail.
Adelman is a known lefty judge. I am betting on probation and/or a token “summer camp” inmate facility sentence.