Federal grand jury indicts Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan [View all]

John Diedrich
Daniel Bice
Mary Spicuzza
Vanessa Swales
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A federal grand jury indicted Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan on May 13 on charges that she tried to assist an undocumented immigrant escape arrest from her courtroom last month ...

Dugan is expected to enter a plea at a May 15 hearing. But members of her defense team issued this statement: "As she said after her unnecessary arrest, Judge Dugan asserts her innocence and looks forward to being vindicated in court" ...

The vote by the grand jury was not disclosed ... To indict, 12 of the 20 jurors need to vote for it ...

Acting U.S. Attorney Richard Frohling appeared for the government, which is unusual ...

U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman was selected to preside over Dugan's case.

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