Wisconsin judge indicted on obstructing immigration case

(Reuters) -A Wisconsin justice who was arrested past period and accused of helping an undocumented migrant successful her tribunal concisely evade migration authorities was indicted by a national expansive assemblage connected Tuesday connected charges of concealing a idiosyncratic from apprehension and obstruction of proceedings.

Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County circuit judge, was arrested connected April 25, aft prosecutors accidental she hindered the migration agents who showed up to apprehension the antheral without a judicial warrant extracurricular her courtroom.

Prosecutors alleged Dugan tried to assistance Eduardo Flores-Ruiz evade apprehension connected April 18 by allowing him to exit done a assemblage doorway earlier his apprehension extracurricular the courthouse.

"As she said aft her unnecessary arrest, Judge Dugan asserts her innocence and looks guardant to being vindicated successful court," Craig Mastantuono, 1 of Dugan's attorneys, said successful a connection connected Tuesday.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court temporarily relieved Dugan of her duties portion her lawsuit proceeds.

(Reporting by Ismail Shakil, Ryan Patrick Jones and Dietrich Knauth; Editing by Caitlin Webber and Chris Reese)