Federal judge lets Hannah Dugan conviction stand in ICE case
What's next: Dugan still faces sentencing after her bid to void the obstruction conviction was rejected.
A federal judge refused Tuesday to throw out former Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan’s obstruction conviction, keeping in place the verdict that she helped Eduardo Flores-Ruiz avoid immigration agents at her courthouse. U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman had delayed sentencing earlier this month to weigh whether a recent federal appeals ruling in Virginia undercut the case. He found it did not, ruling that the attempted ICE arrest of Flores-Ruiz counted as a pending proceeding because it was a planned, targeted operation. Dugan, 67, resigned after her conviction. She faces up to five years in prison, though federal sentencing guidelines make probation more likely.