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Background: Surveillance video shows Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan speaking with ICE agents earlier Eduardo Flores-Ruiz’s detainment (WDJT/YouTube). Left inset: Eduardo Flores-Ruiz (Department of Homeland Security). Right inset: Surveillance video showing Eduardo Flores-Ruiz leaving the Milwaukee County courthouse (WDJT/YouTube).
A Wisconsin justice who has been indicted connected national obstruction charges for allegedly helping a Mexican nationalist evade detainment tin beryllium seen connected recently released video facing disconnected with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wrong her Milwaukee County courthouse.
Judge Hannah Dugan tin beryllium seen successful the footage confronting plain-clothed ICE officers successful a hallway earlier they are escorted out.
The video, archetypal obtained by section ABC affiliate WISN and CBS affiliate WDJT — with antithetic angles provided by each presumption — shows Dugan allegedly speaking with the agents astir their attempted detainment of Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican nationalist facing misdemeanor artillery charges who was astatine the courthouse that time for a hearing.
Dugan is accused of letting Flores-Ruiz sneak retired done a assemblage doorway aft allegedly telling the ICE agents that they needed to talk with the court’s main justice earlier detaining him.
The footage allegedly shows Flores-Ruiz arriving astatine the Milwaukee County courthouse and Dugan speaking with the agents minutes aboriginal successful the hallway, WDJT reports.
Flores-Ruiz is allegedly seen leaving done the assemblage door, portion a plain-clothed cause who spotted him follows behind, per WDJT.
Dugan, who is retired connected bond, has entered a not blameworthy plea aft being arrested past month. She is besides accused of falsely telling agents that they needed to get a judicial warrant to instrumentality Flores-Ruiz into custody. Her charges see obstructing oregon impeding a proceeding earlier a section oregon bureau of the United States, and concealing an idiosyncratic to forestall his find and arrest, which transportation a maximum punishment of 6 years successful situation and up to $350,000 successful fines if convicted connected some counts.
Dugan responded to the charges by filing a question to dismiss her lawsuit conscionable 1 time earlier she was arraigned connected May 15.
“Immunity is not a defence to the prosecution to beryllium determined aboriginal by a assemblage oregon court,” her lawyers argued. “It is an implicit barroom to the prosecution astatine the outset.”
In the motion, Dugan’s ineligible squad condemned her charges and prosecution arsenic being “irrelevant to immunity.” They claimed that adjacent if the judge, who has been connected the seat successful Milwaukee County since 2016, really did what she’s accused of doing, determination would beryllium nary mode of prosecuting her “because she is entitled to judicial immunity for her authoritative acts,” according to her lawyers.
“The authorities has nary ground successful instrumentality to prosecute her,” the question said. “The prosecution against her is barred.”
The government’s prosecution of the justice is “virtually unprecedented and wholly unconstitutional,” her lawyers added, arguing that it violates the 10th Amendment and “fundamental principles of federalism and comity reflected successful that amendment and successful the precise operation of the United States Constitution.”
A proceedings day has been acceptable for July 21.
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