Milwaukee County Circuit Court docket Choose Hannah Dugan was not on the bench Monday following her arrest on federal prices final week for allegedly serving to an unlawful immigrant evade authorities — however she remains to be getting paid, The Submit has discovered.
A reserve decide took over Dugan’s calendar obligations, a spokesperson for the Wisconsin Court docket System confirmed, including: “Choose Dugan is just not on administrative depart at the moment.”
The spokesperson added they weren’t positive how lengthy the reserve decide would spell Dugan, whose subsequent look in her prison case is scheduled for Might 15.
The decide was arrested Friday and faces prices of obstruction of justice and concealing Eduardo Flores-Ruiz from apprehension by federal immigration authorities exterior her courtroom, the place he had appeared for a pre-trial listening to on misdemeanor battery prices.
Dugan may obtain as much as 10 years in jail if convicted of all prices.
Prosecutors say Dugan was informed forward of Flores-Ruiz’s April 18 continuing that “there seemed to be ICE brokers within the hallway” and angrily demanded the officers depart the constructing.
After racing via Flores-Ruiz’s look, the feds say, Dugan directed the defendant and his legal professional out of the courtroom’s “jury door” to a personal space of the courthouse, the place the feds had been knowledgeable they couldn’t make the arrest.
“In accordance with the courtroom deputy, solely deputies, juries, court docket workers, and in-custody defendants being escorted by deputies used the again jury door,” the criticism learn. “Protection attorneys and defendants who weren’t in custody by no means used the jury door.”
Court docket data and the federal criticism point out that Dugan quietly scheduled a standing convention in Flores-Ruiz’s case for Might 14 — apparently with out telling prosecutors.
Flores-Ruiz managed to make it out of the courthouse, however was apprehended following a foot chase after federal brokers noticed him taking place the elevator.
The Mexican nationwide had been arrested March 14 following a battle two days earlier by which he allegedly punched and choked one other man throughout an argument over loud music, in response to a police report obtained by The Submit. A lady who tried to interrupt up the battle additional claimed Flores-Ruiz “deliberately and with out consent struck her a number of instances in her head.”
Flores-Ruiz had been deported from the US as soon as earlier than, in 2013. It isn’t clear when or how he crossed the border a second time.
Dugan was first elected to the bench in 2016 and reelected in 2022.
Her arrest sparked protests in Wisconsin over the weekend, together with from different judges.
In rural Sawyer County, Circuit Choose Monica Isham recommended she wouldn’t hear instances.
“If there is no such thing as a steering for us and no assist for us, I’ll refuse to carry court docket in Department 2 in Sawyer County,” Isham wrote in a personal missive, Wisconsin Proper Now reported. “I cannot put myself or my workers who could really feel compelled to assist me or my neighborhood in hurt[‘]s manner.”
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