Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan was convicted of felony obstruction in a split verdict. Her defense will seek to have the conviction overturned.

Both sides delivered closing arguments in the federal obstruction trial of Hannah Dugan, painting the Milwaukee judge in starkly different ways.

Follow live, in-court updates from Day 3 of the federal trial of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan, who is accused of helping an undocumented immigrant evade ICE arrest.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Majority Leader Tyler August, cited a legal opinion issued by then-Attorney General Bronson La Follette in 1976 that a state senator lost his seat immediately after being convicted of a felony. Under the state constitution felons cannot hold public office.

A jury on Thursday found Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan guilty of a federal felony charge that she obstructed or impeded a proceeding before a U.S. department or agency, while acquitting her on a misdemeanor count tied to concealing an individual from discovery and arrest.

A 12-person jury has found Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan guilty of obstructing federal agents attempting an immigration arrest near her courtroom in April.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The “top levels of government” were involved in bringing charges against a Wisconsin judge accused of helping a Mexican immigrant evade federal authorities, her defense attorney told jurors during closing arguments at her trial Thursday in an attempt to blunt prosecutors’ arguments that the judge acted inappropriately.