Fourteen months ago, Hannah Dugan was handing down rulings from the bench in Milwaukee County. On July 8, she sits on the other side of a federal courtroom, waiting for U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman to decide whether her felony conviction for shielding a defendant from immigration agents ends in prison time.
The Justice Department isn't hedging. In a sentencing memorandum reported by Law&Crime, prosecutors argue that "a serious sentence is necessary to reaffirm a foundational principle of our criminal justice system: no one is above the law, particularly those entrusted with administering it." Dugan's lawyers want the opposite: a sentence of time served, on the grounds that public humiliation, a security detail, and a shattered career already amount to punishment enough.
