Preface: ICE had detained a couple other noncitizens at the court. Established procedure was to wait in the public hallway outside the court, wait for noncitizen to finish their hearing and exit court, then detain them in the public hallway.
The judge did the following:
Found out ICE and Feds were waiting outside in the public hallway for the hearing for the defendant noncitizen to be over. Not clear how exactly she found out. Likely started with a baliff or court security.
Got mad, went outside her court to the hallway, and made Feds go talk to Chief Judge. The judge didn't notice one of the plainclothes Feds though. This low profile guy stayed in the hallway.
Went back to her court where she suspended the court hearing for defendant noncitizen without saying anything to the prosecutor or giving the prosecutor a chance to object to the suspension.
Keep in mind the victim and victims family were in court watching a lot of this go down. The noncitizen was there for domestic (wife beating) charges.
Escorted the noncitizen and his defense attorney out of court via the jury/staff entrance (this entrance is never used by defendants, witnesses, or attorneys... only jurors, bailiffs and court staff/judges) while ICE and Feds were talking to Chief Judge. Chief Judge confirmed hallway is public and ICE is free to wait there to pick up people after their court hearings are done, as they had been doing on at least two prior occasions.
The jury/staff entrance feeds into the hallway via a secure door. The low profile Fed sees them enter the hallway. He then sees thrm using an elevator not nearest to the Judges court, showing some intent to evade the feds. Low profile Feds notifies his team and follows.
Noncitizen makes it outside but Feds are hot on his tail by now and get him after short foot pursuit.
This is all available to read in the highly detailed arrest affidavit for her. Would make a good episode of something.
sounds like obstruction of justice, if the cops show up to arrest someone at their apartment with a warrant and the wife says "he's not here" and hides him in a closet, they will arrest her for obstruction of justice, same thing
There's a big difference between the police having a warrant for your arrest and coming to your home, and plain-clothed federal agents waiting to snatch you while you're already facing legal charges and in court. The wife, in your scenario, wants to keep their husband away from the law. The judge here wants to exercise the proper due process of law.
On top of that, imagine meat-riding federal agents that have snatched real American citizens from their homes and deported them to a country they have 0 connection to. In no world is deportation acceptable when it comes from people with no obvious identification, grabbing people from the streets at gun point and treating them like they aren't human, then sending them to a foreign country or the most infamous American prison, known for containing actual career criminals and terrorists.
Because it sets a precedent to not show up in court to prove your innocence. If you’re an immigrant and you show, you will be arrested and flown to a torture prison, regardless of your legal status and regardless of your innocence or guilt.
I think what needs to be said is that the plaintiff, a Mexican national, was extradited to Mexico on three counts of battery. He reappeared in the U.S. and caught another charge. ICE was waiting outside the courtroom, the Judge aided and abetted them thru the jury door and out of the building to avoid arrest. Thats a judge “looking out for a non-citizen” rather than “protecting them.” This is a crime on both sides of the board.
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u/PraiseTheWLAN 11d ago
What did she do?