Trial is underway in Wisconsin for a judge accused of helping an immigrant evade federal authorities. Jurors settled into their seats for opening statements Monday. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan is in an unusual spot, sitting at the defense table in federal court in Milwaukee. Dugan was charged in April with obstruction and concealment. According to the FBI, Dugan led Eduardo Flores-Ruiz out of her courtroom through a rear door when she learned immigration authorities were in the courthouse looking to arrest him. Dugan's lawyer says she was following courthouse protocols on immigration arrests and wasn’t trying to disrupt agents.

A Massachusetts man has been found guilty of murdering his wife, who has never been found after she disappeared nearly three years ago. Brian Walshe was convicted of first-degree murder Monday after pleading guilty last month to lesser charges of misleading police and illegally disposing of her body. Investigators relied on online searches Walshe made about dismemberment and disposing of a body. Surveillance also showed a man resembling him throwing heavy trash bags into a dumpster. Prosecutors showed photos of many items recovered that were connected to Ana Walshe, including her vaccination card. She had taken out a $2.7 million life insurance policy naming him as the beneficiary.

House Democrats have released several photos from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, including some of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and the former Prince Andrew. The 19 photos released by Democratic lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee on Friday are a small part of more than 95,000 they received from the estate of Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting sex trafficking charges. The photos were released without captions or context and include a black-and-white image of Trump alongside six women whose faces are blacked out. The Democrats also released a photo of Clinton posing alongside Epstein and his longtime girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was due to check-in with immigration authorities less than 14 hours after he was released from detention on a judge’s orders. Abrego Garcia became a flashpoint of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown earlier this year when he was wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. He was last taken into custody in August during a similar check-in. He’s scheduled to appear Friday morning at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore. A judge ordered him released Thursday, saying federal authorities detained him after he returned to the U.S. without any legal basis.

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A grand jury has declined for a second time to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James, refusing to resurrect a mortgage fraud prosecution encouraged by President Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter. It’s a another major blow to the Justice Department after the dismissal of earlier charges against James and another longtime Trump foe, former FBI Director James Comey, in a stunning rebuke of the Trump administration’s efforts to prosecute the president’s political opponents. James says the case is politically motivated and has denied any wrongdoing. The person who confirmed the failure to secure an indictment was not authorized to publicly discuss the matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity.