The trial of Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan began this week. Yesterday, the defense was delivered a blow from the testimony of the judge, who Dugan enlisted to confront ICE officers seeking to arrest an illegal alien in the courthouse. Judge Kristela Cervera testified that she was pulled into the dispute by Dugan, who she said admitted that she was trying to help Eduardo Flores-Ruiz as he evaded officers.
Many of us were wondering who the second judge was who appeared in the hallway wearing her robes. It is irregular to see judges outside of their courtrooms wearing their robes.
Cervera said that Dugan specifically told her to keep her robe on and that she was reluctant to do so: “I didn’t want to walk in the hallway with my robe on.” Dugan, however, allegedly wanted the agents to see them in their robes as a sign of authority.
She said that the agent remained respectful but that Dugan was getting upset in the confrontation: “Her irritation seemed to progress to anger. I thought she could have been a little more diplomatic.”
That coincides with the testimony of FBI Special Agent Jeffrey Baker, who stated, “I would say angry is the best way to describe it.”
Likewise, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Joseph Zuraw stated that Dugan ordered him to “get out” of the public hallway and told him to go to the chief judge’s office. She then allegedly helped the suspect escape through a side door.
Cervera also testified that she was “shocked” by Dugan’s later conduct and that “judges should not be helping defendants evade arrest.” She added, “I was mortified. I thought that someone may think that I was part of some of what happened.”
Cervera said she was shocked by attorneys praising her for helping Flores-Ruiz escape. She described attorneys pumping their fists and telling her, “You go, Judge,” and saying, “Judge, you’re ‘goated’ now.”
She said that she avoided Cervera but ran into her in an elevator. She noted that Dugan told her she was “in the dog house” with the Chief Judge for trying to help Flores-Ruiz.
The testimony supports the allegation that Dugan knowingly sought to help Flores-Ruiz and that her actions were outside her role as a judge in the courthouse.
Dugan is charged with obstruction of a federal agency, a felony, and concealing a wanted person, a misdemeanor. As I discussed in earlier columns, the defense may be hoping for jury nullification in the liberal district. The reaction of lawyers lionizing the judges for facilitating the escape of a suspect may suggest that such a conclusion is possible in this district. The defense may be hoping that at least one juror will discard any testimony and stand with Dugan against ICE and the Trump Administration.
The jury pool can only be viewed as overwhelmingly in favor of Dugan. Kamala Harris won Milwaukee by a margin of 68%-30% over Trump. The chances of getting politically motivated jurors are obviously significant, though that obviously does not mean that jurors cannot be persuaded in the end by the strength of this evidence.
Anonymous said MAGAotts today. I saved this for you Anonymous.
Fox News averaged 2.72 million primetime viewers in 2025 — up 14% year-over-year — spearheaded by Jesse Watters Primetime and Greg Gutfeld’s eponymous show, as well as network staple Sean Hannity’s long-running program. That primetime average was 80% higher than both CNN (580,000 viewers) and MS NOW (923,000) combined. Fox News also had the top 1,080 cable telecasts.
TiT,
The Food Network and reruns of Sponge Bob have higher ratings than CNN.
Hey pig farmer, still watching Sponge Bob eh?
We raised a couple of guinea hogs a while back. They had an acre of woods to forage. No mess, no smell. They got all of our fruit and veggie scraps. Buckets of pecans and acorns. Damaged veggies and fruits from the farmer’s market. My neighbor gave them peaches, plums, veggies. I gave him one pig. Our son felt a bit bad when we sent them to freezer camp. After he tasted a grilled chop he said he doesn’t want to eat factory farmed pork again. There is no contest. Farming is a foundational part of a healthy country. Find a new insult motif🤣
OldFish,
When I do raise hogs, they are pasture fed. Then come fall we feed them apples from the orchard. They have a much more intense porky flavor that some, having eating commercial pork all their lives, find pastured raised hogs off-putting.
As for the annony moron, I do not watch Sponge Bob, but I would be willing to bet it would be more entertaining and informative than CNN.
My kids watched it and I loved it. It was for kids but had alot of grown up humor in it.
Mmmm Bacon!
Knowing you are incapable of thinking your comments through, how is this relevant to the Turley’s post?
Tryrant! Gatekeeping free speech of others! Can’t help yourself? Well i just gatekept YOUR irrelevant post!
Control freak.
That is quite the blow to the defense. But I agree with the good professor, likely there is some leftist jury member who ignore law and order in order to defend some illegal alien and a lawless judge.
This is the face of the Democrat party: Lawlessness.
As most Attorneys are Democrats, I suspect the lust for chaos is fueled by the business it brings.
Do you always see the worst in people?
How is it possible to un-see when they are the ones who put their “worst” on full display for the whole world to see? Just look at the words and actions taken by judge Dugan.
Not that you would know this: Judges hold significant authority during a trial, with control over courtroom proceedings from start to finish. They are responsible for ensuring that trials are conducted fairly and in accordance with the law, maintaining order, and safeguarding the rights of the accused as well as the interests of the public. One of their key roles is determining the admissibility of evidence and managing procedural aspects, such as witness testimony and legal arguments.
In other words, they own every aspect of a trial. Even reverse jury decisions.
What does that have to do with judge Dugan’s words and actions to help an illegal alien avoid and attempt to evade ICE? Based off those words and actions I would not trust her to administer a fair trail just as we are seeing other activist judges thwart ICE from legally conducting their duties as defined by Congress.
Wow, anonymous the stupid copied and pasted his earlier stupid comment for everyone to see twice.
The can reverse a conviction – they can not reverse and aquital, and their authority ends at the doors of their courtroom.
Yes, then you are never disappointed and occasionally pleasantly surprised.
There are 3 possibilities from the jury.
Conviction
Acquital
Hung jury.
An acquital is extremely unlikely.
A hung jury will likely result in a retrial.
Prosecutors usually win retrials.
Separately the purpose of this trial is not to convict Dugan – just as the purpose of Trying Comey is not to convict him.
It is to disuade others from doing the same. The testimoney of this other judge is telling.
I would be shocked if she was “pro-ice” – this is milwaukee.
But she was highly uncomfortable not only with What Dugan was doing, but what Dugan was asking her to do.
To the left generally regarding Immigration and ICE.
Follow the Law.
If you do not like the law – Change the law.
If you wish to protest – Congress is in Washington DC.
If you actually see ICE officers violating the law – Report it.
But do not interfere with the LEO’s doing their job – even if you do not like the laws they are enforcing.
WE though our legislatures make our laws. WE are bound to obey those laws until we change them.
Law enforcement is bound to enforce the laws we create.
Do not protest or attempt to interfere with LEO’s following the law and doing their job.
That has the potential for ending extremely badly for all of us.
This is what the rule of law means.
There are still places in this country that will not tolerate behavior like that of Judge Dugan. Those places grow a good bit of the food consumed by radical leftists. When the revolution finally explodes the cities could get hungry quivkly.
The jury pool would come from the the entire Eastern District of Wisconsin, not just Milwaukee
It only takes one juror to get a hung jury
Just another piece of the evidence that supports the seditious conspiracy of the Biden-Obama administration (s). We shall see but the evidence is piling up, substantially more than necessary in my opinion.
OT
In watching the FBI released videos of the Brown killer. It’s apparent that the killer is a slightly overweight 30-40 year old man. From his path and gait, it is apparent that he has traversed the path regularly. A hint would be to look for previous videos and prior engineering grad students. Look for cars parked regularly in the same areas. He is an immigrant foreign student by my suspicions, Middle East.
“Just another piece of the evidence that supports the seditious conspiracy of the Biden-Obama administration (s). ” So you subscribe to conspiracy theories?
Anon
Wrong thread…
I believe in evidence and there’s a mountain of it. The post was intended for the following thread, must’ve fat fingered. Dugan is undoubtedly guilty and with what we’ve seen so far, I don’t expect too much to come of it. When people no longer see justice being administered at the highest level, they will take matters into their own hands. History repeats itself.
There is a long list of evidence of misconduct withing the Obama administration that has been made public.
These are not theories.
She will keep her job, won’t serve a day in jail and probably run for political office. Our new justice system.
“MAGAotts” ?
Then and Now
(A little lame, but you get the idea)
Joseph Schlitz (Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company)
Slogans:
“The beer that made Milwaukee famous”
“The Judge that made Milwaukee famous”
“When you’re out of Schlitz, you’re out of beer”
“When you’re out of Dugan, you’re out of Luck”
“Real Gusto!”
“Real Dugan!”
“Just the kiss of the hops”
“Just the kiss of the ICE Cops”
“Move up to Schlitz”
“Move up to Dugan”
“The greatest name in beer”
“The greatest name in Injustice”
“Schlitz Rocks America”
“Dugan Rocks America”
“Go for the Gusto”
“Go for the Chamber’s Exit Door”
“When it’s right, you know it”
“When it’s ICE, you know it”
“There’s just one word for beer, and you know it”
“There’s just one word for Dugan, and you know it”
“No One Does It Like the Bull”
“No One Does It Like the Dugan”
Ref.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schlitz_Brewing_Company#Slogans
Interesting Read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Milwaukee
How old are you anon 115?
You’re Close! 😇
Thank you, Anonymous, for the memories. I drank Schlitz back in the day. Good beer actually.
How about Colt 45, Schlitz malt liquor. The brothers loved it🤣
“Holy Marc Elias and Andrew Weissman!”, Batman!: Serves as a reminder that those who choose ‘The Law’ as a profession do not necessarily rise to a higher moral compass. They can exhibit the same moral and ethical turpitude as sorry assed predatory SHPOS’m allowed to roam the streets no thanks to the ‘no cash bail’ laws enacted by their peers.
Well if liberal juries and local podunk judges want to play savior with ILLEGAL immigrants and thus games with Federal Agents then I guess every joke-of-a -local courthouse needs to have agents posted during court hours to pick up the FEDERAL CRIMINALS as they attempt to enter the courthouse and then rendition them to another state within a few hours!! BYE BYE THE HARD WAY!!!
This part seems a little disconnected, maybe need to clarify?
“She said that she avoided Cervera but ran into her in an elevator. She noted that Cervera told her she was “in the dog house” with the Chief Judge for trying to help Flores-Ruiz.”
Did you mean Dugan, not Cervera? The “She” is presumably Cervera speaking.
I thought the same
Recently a judge overruled a unanimous decision by the jury in a fraud case. Is it possible that the judge in this case will have the guts to overrule the jury if they come back innocent?
Who, What, When, Where, and Why?
The whole world knows about this one (note, New Zealand media):
Judge’s reversal of major Medicaid fraud conviction sparks legal and political backlash in Minnesota
https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/usa-crime-updates/judges-reversal-of-major-medicaid-fraud-conviction-sparks-legal-and-political-backlash-in-minnesota/
It still does not answer the Who, What, When, Where, and Why?
You took a foreign news report?
If the jury acquits, the judge can’t overrule that. It only goes against one way: if the jury convicts the judge can change it to not guilty based on insufficient evidence.
Excuse me. You wrote; “if the jury convicts the judge…” What judge will possibly convicted? There are 3 judges involved in this case. And also their are appellate courts to examine a judge’s actions in a suit.. You can’t write a coherent sentence Oldman.
Not that you would know this: Judges hold significant authority during a trial, with control over courtroom proceedings from start to finish. They are responsible for ensuring
that trials are conducted fairly and in accordance with the law, maintaining order, and safeguarding the rights of the accused as well as the interests of the public. One of their key roles is determining the admissibility of evidence and managing procedural aspects, such as witness testimony and legal arguments.
In other words, they own every aspect of a trial.
Are you really that dull that you couldn’t understand the sentence without the comma? If the jury convicts, the judge can change it to not guilty. That meaning was clear from context, to which you are apparently oblivious . . . which in turn means that your reading comprehension skills are basically non-existent. The meaning you derived makes absolutely no sense, because the sentenced continued “. . . can change it to guilty . . .”
Because that is so obvious, I realize that you know that and are just being an a’h0le, which is apparently your life’s goal. So GFY, a’h0le.
OldManFromKS,
His aspiration is to rise to the status of an a’h0le.
USF
He past Ah0le long past, he is now and forever more a Flaming Ah0le.
A jury acquital can not be reversed.
It can not even be reversed if the Jury was bribed – but a bribery prosecution can go forward.
” In other words, they own every aspect of a trial.”
…except the juror’s decisions.
No judge can overrule an acquitale
L&O person? Anon called it red meat, it attracts MAGAotts. Understood?
WTF? Who wrote anything about L&O?
Lets see what the jury does? Judge Dugan should go to jail but worried about the activist jury?
There is no evidence that the jury will be all or partial activists on the jury. The jury screening process, known as voir dire in the United States, begins with the selection of a jury pool, or venire, from a representative cross-section of the community
I think Hannah Dugan, like Ketanji Brown Jackson, went into the law to make law, not to argue decisions on the behalf of law. BTW, your optimism that a local Milwaukee jury can be swayed by evidence is remarkable.
That’s likely correct, gdonaldallen. I see it as a power trip. There are folks in the legal profession who really don’t possess the character and fitness to be admitted to the practice of law.
This is great coverage. Thanks for posting.
“No matter how big, rich or powerful you think you are, no one is above the law.”
“Well, except for me – and all my Leftist friends! With love…” –Letitia
This is closer to insurrection than anything that took place during the mostly peaceful January 6 protest.
Get a dose of reality anon. It simply is not.
This one is a heap of red meat for you MAGAotts.
Ah, the sophistication and locution of the left’s arguments leave the rest us stunned into silence.
Arguments? Where is the argument in that comment?
My condolences that your satire meter is broken, maybe beyond repair.
rambobaggins,
Good one!
Sponge Bob fan huh? Thought that would tickle you.
Yet you won’t answer, what is the argument? I win again.
Nice nice to hear you’re a real law and order person. What other laws are okay to break without any consequences? Name one country where illegal entry is not dealt with severely. I’ve been to Mexico, China and Vietnam to name a few. Believe me you don’t want to be caught there without proper documentation.
L&O person? Anon called it red meat, it attracts MAGAotts. Understood?
A very good point, Mr Bill. Sorry about the Mr. Bill part. I just could not help myself.
What is the very good point?
The thing with oldies like GEB, their brains have metastasized. They just can not help themselves.
The problem with AnonTDS is they attempt the use of big words in denigration of others. Humorous they have no idea their meaning or application.
A better analogy would be, Democratic Socialists are like a cancer that has metastasized, sending its poisoned and corrupted cells out to spread the disease and infect others.
See George Carlin
See George Carlin? Did he come back from the dead?
No, but you are dead to me.
Your comment is rude, the 1st Amendment notwithstanding.
Mexico, China and Vietnam to name a few. Believe me you don’t want to be caught there without proper documentation.
What does that have to do with Dugan in Wisconsin USA?
Yes it is. Thanks?
Thanks for making America into a third world country with a politically biased judiciary dems.
I always knew you had it in you. Go ahead, sell every democrats reputation in order to get Trump.
Surely someday you will be able to make a dent.