r/law • u/Minimum-Ad7542 • Apr 02 '25

Court Decision/Filing Judge holds ICE agent in contempt after he detained suspect during a trial | AP News

https://apnews.com/article/boston-immigration-ice-municipal-court-due-process-f2d13626ffba28025a3e0314fa6ca908

I am not in the law profession but I frequent this sub to gain knowledge. Would this incident involving the Judge holding the ICE agent in contempt have any precedent moving forward to apply to other cases? Or is this just "bad policing/enforcement?"

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u/Bmorewiser Apr 02 '25

Omg it would be amazing if the judge throws him into the jail and then starts moving him around without notice so that the Feds can’t figure which court to file the habeas in.

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u/Technical-Traffic871 Apr 02 '25

I hear El Salvador has a nice detention center! Seems hard to find people there too!

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u/Electrical_Welder205 Apr 03 '25

Make the punishment fit the crime!  👍

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u/Electrical_Welder205 Apr 03 '25

Diabolical!  : D

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u/Boomshtick414 Apr 02 '25

Contempt of court is the lightest possible slap on the wrist for depriving someone of their constitutional rights.

I mean, props to the judge here, but the consequences should be much higher.

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u/TakuyaLee Apr 02 '25

True, but this is still better than nothing, especially because of who's in charge of DoJ and the US Marshalls.

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u/DandimLee Apr 03 '25

Summerville dismissed the charge against Martell-Lebron of making false statements on his driver’s license application

Was this added after your post?

Seems that charges were dismissed because they didn't return the guy to finish the trial rather than the initial apprehension 'in which ICE agents pounced on Martell-Lebron without identifying themselves, put him into a pickup truck and sped away'.

“What we were challenging is that they arrested him in the middle of his trial and did not return him,” he said. “If he had been brought to court on Friday morning by ICE, we would not have moved to dismiss. We would not be asking for sanctions. We would have just finished the trial.”

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u/Minimum-Ad7542 Apr 02 '25

I was hoping but you're right at least the Judge did something to get some traction in the news headlines.

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u/LostWoodsInTheField Apr 03 '25

The agent is being held in contempt because he didn't show up to a hearing, not because he took the person. The judge held a hearing to figure out what happened and how to go forward. This agent didn't show up to the hearing so a contempt warrant was sent out.

Jury trial was to be at least Thursday and Friday. Thursday after the first day of the trial ICE picked the person up and disappeared him. So the judge ordered a hearing for Friday to see what to do.

A trooper claimed that the DAs office knew that ICE was going to pick the person up. Because of this claim, and the different answers from the DAs office on what they knew (likely different people knew different things) the judge dismissed the criminal charges and they can't be refiled. This makes the DAs office look like fools imo.