A Milwaukee County judge has now been found guilty of a felony after a jury concluded she crossed a serious legal line by interfering with federal immigration enforcement.
On Thursday, a jury convicted Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan on a felony obstruction charge for actions prosecutors said were intended to block U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from taking an illegal alien into custody. While she was acquitted on a misdemeanor concealment charge, the felony conviction carries a potential sentence of up to five years in prison.
The verdict follows a closely watched trial that placed a sitting judge at the center of a heated national debate over immigration enforcement and judicial activism. Prosecutors argued that Dugan abused her position from the bench to help an illegal alien evade federal authorities inside a public courthouse.
Dugan was charged in April with obstruction, a felony, and concealing an individual to prevent arrest, a misdemeanor. After roughly six hours of deliberation, jurors found her guilty of obstruction but cleared her on the second count. A sentencing date has not yet been announced.
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