Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan leaves the federal courthouse after a hearing Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Milwaukee. Andy Manis/AP Photo
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) – A Tuesday ruling from the Eastern District of Wisconsin has finalized a conviction against former Wisconsin circuit court judge Hannah Dugan.
According to court records obtained by WISN’s Matt Smith, on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman refused Dugan’s motions for a new trial or reversal of her guilty conviction on a felony charge of impeding federal agents, which was entered by a federal jury last December.
Dugan was convicted of felony obstruction, but the jury acquitted her of a lesser misdemeanor charge of concealing a person from federal law enforcement. The maximum penalty for this conviction is five years in prison, but due to her appeals, Dugan is yet to be formally sentenced.
The FBI arrested Dugan last spring after she helped an illegal immigrant, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, evade ICE agents by leading him to an exit from the courthouse through a nonpublic jury door. At the same time, federal agents waited in the hallway. Flores-Ruiz had pleaded no contest on charges that included three counts of misdemeanor battery with domestic abuse modifiers and was previously deported from the U.S. by the Obama administration in 2013.
Flores-Ruiz is currently in federal custody awaiting deportation to Mexico.
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