Overview

• U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman denied Dugan’s motion to dismiss, adopting a July recommendation from Magistrate Judge Nancy Joseph.
• The decision is appealable to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and a scheduling hearing is set for Sept. 3.
• Dugan has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor concealing an individual to prevent arrest and felony obstruction, which together carry up to six years in prison and $350,000 in fines if convicted.
• Prosecutors allege she directed ICE agents away and allowed defendant Eduardo Flores-Ruiz to exit through a nonpublic door on April 18 before he was arrested outside.
• Flores-Ruiz later pleaded guilty to illegally being in the United States and agreed to deportation, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended Dugan from her judicial duties.