Federal immigration agents arrested an immigrant as he was leaving court on the first day of his trial in Massachusetts on Thursday, with a judge now holding one agent in contempt for disrupting due process.
Plainclothes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents showed up at the court in Boston and took Wilson Martell-Lebron without prior notice, according to The Boston Globe.
It was right outside the courtroom. Since there are breaks and sometimes multi day trials, there are ways a defendant could be “in the middle of a trial” and not be in the actual courtroom, where the bailiff would be.
You dropped this. Funny, this is the second one I’ve picked up today.