Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested last month after saying prosecutors helped evade federal immigrant agents.
A US judge was charged by the Federal University Ju trial with accusations of hiding people from arrests and obstructing lawsuits after being accused of undocumented immigrants of supporting authorities.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan, 66, was arrested last month, after prosecutors said they had obstructed Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who appeared outside of court to arrest a man without a judicial warrant.
Prosecutors alleged that she tried to help Eduardo Flores Luis and his lawyer leave the court through the door of the rear ju judge before being arrested outside the building.
Dugan faces up to six years in prison if convicted on both counts. Craig Mastantuono, one of Dugan’s lawyers, said in a statement that Dugan “pleads her innocence and looks forward to being proven in court.”
Dugan, elected in 2016, is expected to plead not guilty at his upcoming hearing scheduled for Thursday.
According to court documents, Flores Lewis illegally re-entered the United States after being deported in 2013.
He was charged in March with three counts of three misdemeanor domestic abuse in Milwaukee County and was in court at a hearing in April, according to online state court records.
Court documents suggest that Dugan was warned that immigration agents had appeared in court hallways by her clerk.
In the affidavit, Dugan was said to be visibly angry at the arrival, calling the situation “absurd” before leaving the bench and returning to her room.
She and another judge approached the court’s ice agent, what the witness later described as “confrontational and angry attitude.”
According to the affidavit, Dugan demanded that he speak to the Supreme Court after he went through Flores-Ruiz’s warrant and then Flores-Ruiz’s warrant, leading him from the court.
When she returned to court, she heard Flores Lewis and his lawyer telling her to come with her, and they were guided through the juju judge’s door behind her.
Flores Lewis was captured by federal agents outside the court after chasing his foot.
The indictment is the latest incident in President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration and local governments.
Democrats have accused the Trump administration of trying to model Dugan to suppress judicial opposition.