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> I.e. the ICE agents showed up in the middle of a court proceeding, and the judge said they'd need to get permission from the chief judge before they could int
by adolph 2y ago
> I.e. the ICE agents showed up in the middle of a court proceeding, and the judge said they'd need to get permission from the chief judge before they could interrupt proceedings. The judge then didn't stop the defendant from leaving once the proceeding was done.
Do you have any evidence of this claim? The FBI affidavit says they were waiting in the public hallway outside, let the bailiff know what they were doing and did not enter the courtroom. The judge did not find out until a public defender took pictures of the arrest team and brought it to the attention of the judge. Maybe the FBI lied, but that seems unlikely given the facts would seem eventually verifiable by security video and uninvolved witness statements.
Members of the arrest team reported the following events after Judge DUGAN
learned of their presence and left the bench. Judge DUGAN and Judge A, who
were both wearing judicial robes, approached members of the arrest team in
the public hallway.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wied.111629/gov.uscourts.wied.111629.1.0.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wied.11...
- Larrikin 2y ago[flagged]
- adolph 2y agoIf vibes based epistemology works for you, great. Otherwise, it's my username because it's my birth name, feel free to complain to them or consider the Shel Silverstein and Johnny Cash song about a boy's name. The source link is there for anyone to assess validity and I acknowledge in the comment that the FBI isn't an unimpeachable source. It also isn't so totally careless that an agent would make an affidavit for something that can easily be proven untrue under light scrutiny.
- habinero 2y agoWhy would you assume that? It's entirely plausible that a politically motivated set of agents decided to punish this judge.
- adolph 2y ago> It's entirely plausible that a politically motivated set of agents decided to punish this judge. Do you mean the agents decided to punish the judge by staging an immigration arrest in order to elicit allegedly unlawful and weird behavior? The assertions of the affidavit do not have bearing upon whether the proceedings afterward are political in nature or not. The judge adjourned the alleged wife beater’s hearing without a motion known to the victims or prosecution who were all there waiting. Leaving everything else aside, that is behavior that indicates prejudice for the defendant, a real WTF move.