Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Closing arguments began Thursday in the trial for Judge Hannah Dugan after the court heard testimony from fellow Milwaukee County judicial officials about a lack of court policy on immigration arrests in public areas.
The testimony came on Day 4 of Dugan's trial. She pleaded not guilty earlier this year to federal charges including one count of obstructing an official proceeding and concealing a person from arrest, and another of concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest.
The case stems from an incident on April 18, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials came to her courtroom and notified her they planned to arrest undocumented immigrant Eduardo Flores-Ruiz. They said she sent the agents to the chief judge's office before going back to her courtroom, pushing Flores-Ruiz's case to the front of her docket, then helped him and his lawyer leave from a private jury door.
The ICE agents ultimately found and arrested Flores-Ruiz outside the courthouse.
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