Overview
- Fourteen jurors, including two alternates, were chosen for Judge Hannah Dugan’s case, with opening statements set for Monday in federal court in Milwaukee.
- Dugan faces one felony count of obstructing a proceeding and one misdemeanor count of concealing an individual, has pleaded not guilty, and could face up to six years in prison if convicted.
- Prosecutors say security video shows Dugan confronted ICE agents, directed them away, and that Eduardo Flores-Ruiz then exited through a nonpublic door before being arrested later by another agent.
- U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman reversed an initial decision to keep individual juror questioning private after objections from media organizations including Hearst Television and Gannett, and the released transcripts detail questions about juror impartiality that led to some dismissals.
- Flores-Ruiz later pleaded to federal immigration violations and state charges and agreed to deportation in November.