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The federal court in Rhode Island leveled a stunning accusation against ICE on Tuesday, suggesting the deportation agency \u201cmanipulated\u201d a case to force a judge to release a migrant homicide suspect so the Trump administration could attack the judge.<\/p>\n

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Bryan Rafael Gomez, the illegal immigrant suspect, has since disappeared, said Hanorah Tyer-Witek, clerk of the U.S. District Court.<\/p>\n

The clerk said it appears as though U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deliberately withheld information about Mr. Gomez\u2019s homicide warrant in the Dominican Republic from Judge Melissa DeBose, who was overseeing a case seeking Mr. Gomez\u2019s release from immigration detention.<\/p>\n

Without knowing about the homicide warrant, Judge DuBose ordered Mr. Gomez released \u2014 then Homeland Security issued a press release attacking her for that order.<\/p>\n

Ms. Tyer-Witek said the whole thing smelled like an ICE setup.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis troubling sequence raised the question whether ICE deliberately manipulated the case briefing on the Gomez petition to set up Judge DuBose to release Mr. Gomez so that it could make a false attack against her,\u201d the court clerk wrote.<\/p>\n

After DHS issued its press release, Judge DuBose, while complaining about the unfairness of the attack on her, gave ICE permission to rearrest Mr. Gomez \u2014 but he failed to check in and is now in the wind.<\/p>\n

The case is the latest flashpoint in clashes between ICE and federal judges who have been skeptical of the agency\u2019s attempts to carry out President Trump\u2019s mass deportation plans.<\/p>\n

Judge DuBose \u2014 and the Rhode Island court \u2014 seem particularly incensed that DHS has refused to take down the press release attacking the judge.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe court remains deeply concerned about the conduct by ICE officials that led to this incident and about the false statement issued by ICE reporting on the Gomez ruling, which remains online despite the government\u2019s knowledge that it is false,\u201d the clerk wrote.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, DHS has doubled down on its criticism of Judge DuBose.<\/p>\n

In an op-ed last month, James Percival, DHS\u2019 general counsel, accused her of \u201cjudicial misconduct\u201d that resulted in a murder suspect eluding authorities.<\/p>\n

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He said Judge DuBose should have ordered Mr. Gomez to sit for a bond hearing before an immigration court, where ICE would have presented evidence of his homicide warrant and his danger to the community.<\/p>\n

Instead, Judge DuBose ordered Mr. Gomez released and said only after he was free that he needed a bond hearing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn other words, the judge\u2019s reckless disregard for the law caused the problem. The fact that the court lacked the necessary information to review Mr. Gomez\u2019s custody status is the court\u2019s fault and only the court\u2019s fault,\u201d Mr. Percival wrote in The Federalist.<\/p>\n

The Washington Times has sought comment from the Justice Department for this story.<\/p>\n

In addition to the clerk\u2019s accusations that ICE \u201cset up\u201d the court, John J. McConnell Jr., the chief federal judge in Rhode Island, scolded the DOJ\u2019s lawyer for his handling of the case.<\/p>\n

Judge McConnell, an Obama appointee who has become one of the fiercest judicial roadblocks to the Trump administration, faulted Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Bolan for agreeing to ICE\u2019s request to withhold the information about the homicide warrant from Judge DuBose.<\/p>\n

Judge McConnell said Mr. Bolan\u2019s \u201cerror was serious\u201d but apparently not intentional.<\/p>\n

The judge said no formal discipline will be brought against Mr. Bolan, though the scolding letter will appear in the docket of the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour lapse of judgment reflected a failure to prioritize your duty to the court over the instructions of your client, but you did not act for any deceitful or illicit reason,\u201d the judge wrote.<\/p>\n

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