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Richard W. Roberts is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was born on 1953 in American. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1978. He began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge John J. Gibbons of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1978 to 1979. He then served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1983. From 1983 to 1989, he was a partner at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson. In 1989, President George H. W. Bush nominated Roberts to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia vacated by George H. Revercomb. Roberts was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 5, 1989, and received his commission on October 6, 1989. He served as Chief Judge from 2006 to 2013. As of 2021, Richard W. Roberts has an estimated net worth of $1 million.

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2016

On March 16, 2016, Roberts took inactive senior status, citing unspecified health issues. Judge Karen L. Henderson signed Robert's certificate of disability, allowing him to take early senior status. That same day, Terry Mitchell, the eyewitness from the Franklin trial, filed a federal civil rights suit against him, accusing him of repeatedly raping her when she was a witness in a high-profile Utah murder case 35 years earlier. Roberts's lawyers told members of the press that their client, who was 27 and unmarried at the time, did indeed have a consensual sexual relationship with Mitchell but that it occurred after the trial ended. The complaint was closed March 18, 2016 due to Roberts' retirement.

Montgomery Blair Sibley, the last lawyer for the late Deborah Jeane Palfrey, sued Roberts for his prolonged failure to file his request to have a gag order lifted, that forced him to keep Palfrey's customer list private. Palfrey was a prominent arranger of trysts with high class call girls, and her client list is believed to be packed with highly placed Washington insiders. In April 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the request to lift the lower court order, in place since 2007, that bars Sibley from releasing any information about her records.

2014

According to the Biography by the National Conference on Citizenship, Roberts has held various academic, community, and legal positions. In academic settings, he served on the Board of Trustees of Vassar College for 12 years and rejoined the Board in 2014, has been a visiting faculty member of the Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop for over 30 years, and was an Adjunct Professor of trial practice at Georgetown University Law Center.

2008

Many commentators have described the CIA's destruction of this evidence as a violation of Roberts's court order. On January 24, 2008, Roberts demanded an explanation from the CIA for the tapes destruction.

On March 25, 2008 Charles Carpenter, a lawyer for a Guantanamo captive from Yemen named Hani Abdullah brought suit against the CIA, before Roberts, arguing that the evidence the CIA destroyed would have helped prove his client's innocence.

Roberts oversaw a lawsuit by Abu Zubaydah challenging his detention at Guantanamo Bay detention camps which was filed in July 2008 after the Boumediene v. Bush ruling. As of 2015, the judge had failed to rule on any motions related to the case, even the preliminary ones. This led Zubaydah's lawyers to file motion asking Roberts to recuse himself for "nonfeasance" in January 2015.

2005

Roberts issued a court order prohibiting the CIA destroying evidence of its use of interrogations in July 2005. CIA Director Michael V. Hayden acknowledged in December 2007 that the CIA had subsequently destroyed hundreds of hours of tapes of the use of "extended interrogation techniques", including the technique known as "waterboarding", where subjects's lungs are filled with water, so they experience the first stages of drowning.

1998

President Bill Clinton nominated Roberts to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on January 27, 1998, to a seat vacated by Charles R. Richey. He was then confirmed by the United States Senate on June 5, 1998, received his commission on June 23, 1998 and sworn in on July 31, 1998. He served as Chief Judge from 2013 until he took inactive senior status.

1995

Clinton appointed Roberts to the position of Criminal Section Chief of the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, in 1995. He served in this position for three years until 1998.

1986

After his tenure as a trial attorney for the Department of Justice, Roberts joined the international law private practice, Covington & Burling. He was an attorney at Covington & Burling for four years until 1986.

In 1986, Roberts was then appointed as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York He served underneath United States Attorney Rudy Giuliani, who later served as Mayor of New York City. He held the position of Assistant United States Attorney for two years until he was appointed as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, underneath United States Attorney Jay B. Stephens. In 1993, when President Bill Clinton appointed Eric Holder as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Roberts was picked as the Principal Assistant United States Attorney. Roberts held the position of Principal Assistant U.S. Attorney for two years until 1995.

1983

In 1983, Roberts helped found the Washington, D.C., chapter of Concerned Black Men, Inc. The vision of this organization is to help provide more black male role models for children in various communities across the United States. Roberts held the position of deputy general counsel for the Washington, D.C., chapter.

1978

The first position that Roberts held was as a Trial Attorney position for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice. He held this position from 1978 to 1982. In this position, Roberts prosecuted the murder of two black Salt Lake City joggers who were killed for racial reasons by Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist.

1974

Roberts is a 1974 graduate from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Roberts was awarded an Artium Baccalaureus degree and received cum laude honors there. Originally, Roberts concentrated in mathematics at Vassar but then began a career path in law. He continued his education at both the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont, and Columbia Law School in New York City. In 1978, he received a Master of International Affairs from the School for International Training, and a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School.

For Roberts's prosecutorial efforts against Joseph Paul Franklin, the U.S. Attorney General awarded him with a special commendation. Roberts also graduated cum laude from Vassar College in 1974 with a bachelor's degree. When Roberts was a civil rights prosecutor in the Justice Department, he was hired into the Attorney General's Honors Program.

1963

Roberts was born in New York City, New York and is African American. Both of Roberts's parents were public school teachers. His mother was involved as a chorister at the Metropolitan Opera, and his father was avidly involved with the NAACP and participated in the March on Washington in 1963. His father also participated in the march in Memphis, Tennessee, after Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. Roberts attended the High School of Music and Art in New York City and was a 1970 graduate.

1953

Richard Warren Roberts (born 1953) is an inactive Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.