So the issue in question involves Eduardo Flores-Luiz. On April 18th, he was supposed to be at a pre-trial hearing over battery domestic abuse, so forth. A poster on another thread put the affidavit up. Basically, ICE came in to the courtroom with an administrative warrant. Now I'm not an attorney, as I understand it, it is not the same as a judicial warrant. In the former, you can't enter private spaces or places where it is privacy is expected without consent, such as a courtroom. In other words, you can't enter a place without permission.
Now allegedly, the judge got upset because Ruiz was on the docket for a pre-trial hearing, the victims' families were there, so I assume that has not had his pre-trial hearing, at least not based on the affidavit I read. The allegations are that she told them to talk to the chief judge, and according to the accusations, she and his attorney had him leave out of the jury room, where he supposedly was trying to escape, they did get him, and basically ICE/FBI is upset that she disrupted their warrant.
Now here are some big questions. First, If Flores-Luiz was in the process of doing a pre-trail hearning, why do it then? No one told the judge over that. The courtroom opened at 8:15 am. As far as I know, I do not believe the court was told beforehand. Second, was he arrested before the hearing? If he wasn't, then that falls on the local/state police. It seems hard for me to believe that somebody who is facing serious allegations wasn't arrested, unless he posted bail. If he did, and it was agreed he would be arrested after the hearing, okay, that might be different, but based on how I understand it, it sounds like he didn't. Even so, ICE did not have the right to enter a place without consent. Why didn't they tell the chief judge or whoever that they were coming? How was the judge supposed to know if it was unexpected? Again, an administrative warrant doesn't mean the same as a judicial warrant.
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