Overview
- Opening statements are scheduled for Monday, with 12 jurors selected and two alternates after a day of intensive voir dire.
- Prosecutors plan to present security video and agent testimony to argue Dugan directed ICE agents away before a noncitizen exited a restricted courthouse door in April.
- The court barred jurors from seeing certain social media posts about Dugan by Trump administration officials, and lawyers were instructed to avoid injecting feelings about President Trump.
- Transcripts obtained by WISN detail the private juror questioning before the audio reversal, including dismissals of potential jurors who expressed doubts about impartiality.
- Eduardo Flores-Ruiz later pleaded to federal immigration and state charges and agreed to deportation in November, while demonstrations and public statements have accompanied the case.