Overview
- U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman, in a 39-page order Monday, denied Hannah Dugan’s motions for a new trial or a judgment of acquittal after her December felony conviction.
- A federal jury found Dugan guilty in December of obstructing immigration enforcement, and it acquitted her on a separate misdemeanor concealing charge; she later resigned her judgeship.
- Adelman said many defense claims were a rehash of earlier arguments and ruled that a proposed courthouse-arrest privilege was not preserved for review.
- He also rejected challenges to jury instructions, writing that his answers to jurors’ questions did not misstate the law or prejudice the defense.
- The case stems from April 2025, when Dugan directed defendant Eduardo Flores-Ruiz through a restricted courthouse door, after which agents arrested him outside and he was later deported.