Overview

• U.S. District Judge Lynne Adelman denied Hannah Dugan’s motion to dismiss, adopting a July recommendation from Magistrate Judge Nancy Joseph.
• The decision allows the Justice Department to continue the prosecution, with an appeal available to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and no trial date set.
• Dugan has pleaded not guilty to concealing an individual to prevent arrest and obstruction, charges that carry a combined maximum of six years in prison and $350,000 in fines.
• Prosecutors allege Dugan directed federal agents away from defendant Eduardo Flores-Ruiz’s location and let him exit through a nonpublic door; agents arrested him outside after a brief chase.
• The case has become a flashpoint in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement push, drawing comparisons to a Massachusetts prosecution that was later dismissed.