Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan was sentenced to a $5,000 fine and will not serve jail time for her role in helping an undocumented immigrant evade U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Dugan was convicted in December of felony obstruction of justice for assisting Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican national, in escaping out a back door of the courthouse to avoid federal authorities following a hearing last year.
Dugan faced a potential sentence of up to five years in prison after her conviction. The incident occurred during the early months of the Trump administration's heightened enforcement of immigration laws across the United States. Flores-Ruiz was accused of assaulting an individual multiple times.