Overview
- Dugan’s sentencing is set for June 3 after U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman rejected her bids for a new trial and an acquittal earlier this week.
- Jurors in December convicted her of obstruction for directing defendant Eduardo Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer out a side door as immigration agents waited at the courthouse, and they cleared her of a separate concealment charge.
- She resigned from the Milwaukee County bench after the verdict, and her lawyers say they will appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
- She faces up to five years in prison, but a local investigative reporter said her clean record and federal guidelines make prison time unlikely, noting Adelman often sentences below those ranges.
- The Justice Department and FBI highlighted the case as a reminder that no one is above the law, and the reporter called it the first case of its kind to go to trial and result in a conviction.