Richard W. Roberts

Last updated
  1. Hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, on Confirmations of Appointees to the Federal Judiciary, May 14; June 18; July 16; July 30, 1998. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1999. p. 153.
  2. 1 2 3 "The Honorable Richard W. Roberts". The HistoryMakers. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  3. "Richard W. Roberts". Just The Beginning Foundation. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Roberts, Richard W. - Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov.
  5. 1 2 3 "Hon. Richard Roberts Biographical Sketch". Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Hon. Richard W. Roberts". National Conference on Citizenship. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  7. "A Conversation with Chief Judge Richard W. Roberts". Council for Court Excellence. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  8. Nestel, M. L. (17 March 2016). "Serial Killer's Survivor: Prosecutor Raped Me During the Trial". The Daily Beast.
  9. 1 2 Matt Apuzzo (2008-01-25). "Judge seeking details on CIA tapes". Contra Costa Times . Retrieved 2008-03-29. Several judges are considering wading into the dispute over the videos, but U.S. District Judge Richard Roberts was the first to order the administration to provide a written report on the matter. The decision is a legal setback for the Bush administration, which has urged courts not to get involved.
  10. 1 2 Mark Mazzetti, Scott Shane (2008-03-28). "Tapes' Destruction Hovers Over Detainee Cases". New York Times . Retrieved 2008-03-29. One of the court orders, issued in July 2005 by Judge Richard W. Roberts of the Federal District Court in Washington, required the preservation of all evidence related to Hani Abdullah, the Yemeni prisoner at Guantánamo, who is accused of attending a Qaeda training camp in 2001 and other offenses. Judge Roberts said in a January order that Mr. Abdullah's lawyers had made a plausible case that Abu Zubaydah would have been asked about their client in interrogations.
  11. Carol D. Leonnig (December 22, 2007). "Detainee Evidence Probe Weighed: Judge Told Guantanamo Information May Have Been Destroyed". Washington Post . p. A02. Retrieved 2008-03-29.
  12. "U.S. judge orders White House to explain destruction of CIA tapes". CBC News. 2008-01-25. Retrieved 2008-03-29. There's enough there that it's worth asking" whether other videos or documents were also destroyed, said attorney Charles Carpenter, who represents Guantanamo Bay detainee Hani Abdullah. "I don't know the answer to that question, but the government does know the answer and now they have to tell Judge Roberts.
  13. "Destroyed tapes come back to vex CIA". United Press International. 2008-03-28. Archived from the original on May 24, 2011. Retrieved 2008-03-29. In a suit brought by Hani Abdullah, a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a federal judge has raised the possibility that the U.S. spy agency violated a court order to preserve all evidence relevant to the prisoner by destroying the tapes, The New York Times reported Friday.
  14. 1 2 Romboy, Dennis (Mar 17, 2016). "D.C. judge resigns on same day Utahn accuses him of decades-old rape". KSL.com .
  15. "Richard W. Roberts". Washington, D.C.: Federal Judicial Center . Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  16. Johnson, Carrie (18 March 2016). "Federal Judge Retires as 'Bad Lapse in Judgment' with 16-Year-Old Surfaces". NPR.
  17. "Murder trial witness on alleged 1981 rape by prosecutor: 'He derailed my life'". TheGuardian.com . 27 March 2016. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  18. Mitchell v. Roberts, U.S. District Court, District of Utah, Case No. 2:16-cv-00843, Document 9 at 4.
  19. Ann E. Marimow (16 March 2016). "Chief judge of the District's federal court retires as lawsuit accuses him of sexual assault". The Washington Post.
  20. https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/c.c.d._no._17-02_november_30_2017.pdf [uscourts.gov].
  21. Mitchell v. Roberts, U.S. District Court, District of Utah, Case No. 2:16-cv-00843, Document 54.
  22. https://ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/files/opinions/010110722059.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  23. Neal Augenstein (2016-02-09). "Ex-lawyer for 'D.C. Madam' has names, not just client phone numbers". WTOP . Retrieved 2016-04-08. Citing the restraining orders, Sibley has declined to disclose which, if any presidential candidates might be affected by the names on the CD.
  24. Neal Augenstein (2016-02-23). "Ex-lawyer for 'D.C. Madam' sues federal chief judge, clerk for $1 million each". WTOP . Retrieved 2016-04-08. Without providing any specifics, Sibley has contended that information found within Palfrey's escort service records could affect the 2016 presidential election.
  25. "SCOTUS Denies Request from D.C. Madam's Attorney to Release Info". NBC News. 5 April 2016. Retrieved 2016-04-05..
  26. "Chief Judge Richard W. Roberts". U.S. District Court, District of Columbia. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  27. "Judge Richard W. Roberts".
  28. "Alums - AAVC - Awards - Outstanding Service to Vassar College Award Archive | Vassar College".
Richard W. Roberts
Richard W. Roberts.jpg
Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Assumed office
March 16, 2016
Legal offices
Preceded byJudge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
1998–2016
Succeeded by
Preceded byChief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
2013–2016
Succeeded by