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.

    • jimbolauski@lemm.ee
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      4 days ago

      The headline is misleading, he was picked up as he left the building his trial was continuing to the next day.

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      4 days ago

      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.