RIGHT SPEAK: Felon Milwaukee County Judge Resigns With Guaranteed Pension: A Federal Jury Last Month Convicted Hannah Dugan of Obstructing ICE Agents Attempting to Arrest an Illegal Immigrant; Will Judge Hannah Dugan Get Prison Time for Obstructing ICE Agents?

Felon Milwaukee County Judge Resigns With Guaranteed Pension:

A federal jury last month convicted Hannah Dugan of obstructing ICE agents attempting to arrest an illegal immigrant.

Facing up to five years in prison for helping a violent illegal immigrant escape ICE officers, Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan is resigning. But even with the felony conviction on her record, Dugan will receive a generous taxpayer-funded retirement no matter what happens next.

A federal jury last month found Dugan guilty on the obstruction charge for the April 18 incident in which the leftist judge escorted Eduardo Flores-Ruiz and his attorney to the “jury door,” allowing the illegal alien to briefly flee from Department of Homeland Security agents.

‘Judge Hannah Dugan is Neither’

On Saturday, Dugan submitted her resignation letter to Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers. In it, she attempted to play both the martyr card and the social-justice hero as she decried the “unprecedented” charges against her. The Milwaukee County judge is appealing her conviction. She awaits a sentencing date, although it is unlikely Dugan will see much, if any, time behind bars for her first offense.

“I am the subject of unprecedented federal legal proceedings, which are far from concluded but which present immense and complex challenges that threaten the independence of our judiciary,” Dugan asserts in the resignation letter. As The Federalist has reported, a Massachusetts judge faced criminal proceedings in 2019 following a nearly identical incident.

“I am pursuing this fight for myself and for our independent judiciary,” the felon judge bloviated. “However, the Wisconsin citizens that I cherish deserve to start the year with a judge on the bench in Milwaukee County Branch 31 rather than have the fate of that Court rest in a partisan fight in the state legislature.”

As a felon, Dugan really has no other choice but to resign. The Wisconsin constitution makes clear that those convicted of a felony are barred from holding “any office of trust, profit or honor in this state” — unless they have been pardoned.

Republicans threatened to impeach Dugan if she did not resign.

“Wisconsinites deserve to know their judiciary is impartial and that justice is blind. Judge Hannah Dugan is neither, and her privilege of serving the people of Wisconsin has come to an end,” wrote Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Assembly Majority Leader Tyler August in a joint statement.

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Will Judge Hannah Dugan get prison time for obstructing ICE agents?

Milwaukee County. Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan faces a maximum of five years behind bars after she was found guilty of obstructing federal agents seeking to make an arrest.

But how much time is Dugan, 66, likely to actually get when she is sentenced?

The short answer: Not much time and probably no time at all.

When will Dugan's sentencing be?

U.S. Judge Lynn Adelman has not set a sentencing date or ordered a pre-sentence investigation. A PSI is deep background check by a federal probation officer with details of the crime, defendant's criminal history and personal life and any victim impact to help the judge give a fair sentence.

It is unusual for a judge in the Eastern District of Wisconsin not to immediately order a PSI and set a sentencing date after a jury returns a guilty verdict.

After Adelman read the verdict on Dec. 18, Dugan's defense team said they would ask him to overturn the verdict.

The grounds for such a post-conviction motion have not been laid out, but the team has indicated it will argue that the answers Adelman gave to jury instructions were unclear and possibly improper. Judicial immunity is likely to come back as an argument, they said.

Is the fact that Adelman didn't set a sentencing date indicate he will overturn the jury's verdict? Too early to say, but it seems safe to say he is taking the motion seriously. A decision won't come until March.