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Jury Quickly Convicts Judge Who Helped Illegal Migrant Escape ICE
Breitbart ^ | December 19, 2025 | Neil Munro

Posted on 12/19/2025 10:02:40 AM PST by Morgana

A Milwaukee jury has convicted the pro-migration judge who smuggled an illegal migrant out of her courtroom and away from waiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan now faces up to five years in jail for obstructing an official proceeding when she escorted illegal migrant Eduardo Flores Ruiz out of her courtroom. Flores Ruiz had already been deported and so faced jail for sneaking back into the United States.

It took just six hours for the jury to agree on the verdict after Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelly Brown Watzka summed up the evidence by saying, “She was a frustrated and angry judge who was fed up, who decided to corruptly take matters into her own hands.”

Dugan has had a long career working for pro-migration groups, including Catholic Charities.

One of Dugan’s attorneys, Jason Luczak, asked the jury to play politics, saying:

“You’re the check on government overreach. Use your power to do justice in this case. You have the power to correct this unjust prosecution. It’s your decision and justice is in your hands.

“I would just say the case is a long way from over,” defense attorney Steven Biskupic said after the verdict.

Many polls show that the public overwhelmingly supports the deportation of criminal illegal immigrants.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche celebrated the conviction, saying:

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: aliens; harboring; judge; misconduct; obstruction; wisconsin
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1 posted on 12/19/2025 10:02:40 AM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

This is a good sign the culture is going SANE again.


2 posted on 12/19/2025 10:10:52 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrats stand with criminals, dope dealers, illegals & terrorists. <P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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To: Morgana

I only care if she is no longer a judge.


3 posted on 12/19/2025 10:16:34 AM PST by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words? )
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To: webheart

I’m with you on this one.


4 posted on 12/19/2025 10:25:10 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: GOPJ

And hopefully stays sane.


5 posted on 12/19/2025 10:25:50 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Morgana

She obviously did it. If she had said ‘I objected to my court being used by ICE as a net to catch people, I did it to protect my court as a place where you get justice, not a trap’ then maybe ... maybe ... someone on jury would say ‘yeah, I can see that’ but outright denying it? Nobody likes being liked to as if they are morons.


6 posted on 12/19/2025 10:32:54 AM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: Morgana

Everybody in America has been screwed by a judge at one point. Getting on a jury to convict a black robed tyrant is a dream come true for any normal person.


7 posted on 12/19/2025 10:34:05 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: Morgana
Jury Quickly Convicts Judge Who Helped Illegal Migrant Escape ICE

She's small potatoes but it's a start. I predict her sentence will be a slap on the wrist. Will an appeals court throw out the verdict?

8 posted on 12/19/2025 10:37:46 AM PST by JesusIsLord
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To: Morgana

“... including Catholic Charities.”

In itself, that’s a good reason to convict. Not anti-Catholic; I’ve seen them up close and they are a nasty piece of work.

As to sentence, don’t hold your breath. Judge sentencing a judge? Nah.


9 posted on 12/19/2025 10:47:26 AM PST by DPMD (u)
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To: pepsi_junkie
She obviously did it. If she had said ‘I objected to my court being used by ICE as a net to catch people, I did it to protect my court as a place where you get justice, not a trap’ then maybe ... maybe ... someone on jury would say ‘yeah, I can see that’ but outright denying it? Nobody likes being liked to as if they are morons.

Sounds like an episode of "Bull" I recently watched. The judge on that show let someone out the back door that the FBI was waiting to arrest.
10 posted on 12/19/2025 10:48:55 AM PST by jimmango
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To: Morgana

“She was a frustrated and angry judge who was fed up, who decided to corruptly take matters into her own hands.”

Fed up with criminals being caught, how about that.


11 posted on 12/19/2025 11:12:38 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....I voted for this too!)
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To: Morgana

She has potential as a jailhouse lawyer. I say we let her explore that.


12 posted on 12/19/2025 11:18:39 AM PST by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: pepsi_junkie

I just learned yesterday that there is audio to the video. Apparently she said “I’ll take the heat.” Wish granted!


13 posted on 12/19/2025 11:18:56 AM PST by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: webheart

She needs jail. Losing her job is tough but it wont put enough fright into the rest of these scummy swamp dwellers. Judges cannot be activists.


14 posted on 12/19/2025 11:23:39 AM PST by MrRelevant
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To: Morgana

Five years...


15 posted on 12/19/2025 11:59:38 AM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Morgana
It took just six hours for the jury to agree on the verdict...

Six hours?

I was on the jury for a kidnapping/murder case and we only took 45 minues to convict.

Despite mountains of evidence and testimony from both sides during a 30-day trial, we only looked at the security video and that was that.

I'm sure the courthouse has video footage showing her escorting him out.

16 posted on 12/19/2025 4:09:00 PM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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