Chief Judge Richard W. Roberts rapes a 16 year old and is not held accountable for 30 years -The Judge retired early with all benefits - it was reported that he would be making more retired than working - You are paying in your taxes for a RAPIEST yearly. This is the power Judges have
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Mitchell v. Roberts, U.S.D.C. (D. Utah), Case No. 2:16-cv-00843-EJF.
TBD
Terry Elrod Mitchell
According to the suit, which seeks $25 million in damages, Terry Elrod Mitchell, a witness in a 1981 criminal case being prosecuted by Roberts, was a vulnerable teenager with a history of sexual abuse when they met. Mitchell claims that Roberts used his access to her mental health records to deceive her, after which he drove her to a hotel, forced her into a room and then raped her.
The complaint alleges that Roberts “intimidated, coerced and manipulated Mitchell to have sexual intercourse nearly every day for several weeks.” Roberts is accused of using the threat of a mistrial in the criminal case as leverage to continue their relationship.
That prosecution launched an illustrious legal career for Roberts, known as Ricky, who was then 27 and unmarried. The defendant in the criminal case, a self-avowed white supremacist named Joseph Paul Franklin, had previously shot and paralyzed Hustler founder Larry Flynt. Mitchell was in a Salt Lake City park when Franklin shot two of her friends, at such close range that she was injured by shrapnel.
Chief Judge Richard Roberts of the USDC of the District of Columbia
Judge Roberts was investigated in 2014 by the Utah Attorney General’s office, but not criminally charged with having sex with Mitchell because the age of consent in Utah was 16 at the time. Regardless, as special investigator Paul Cassell noted, “Unsurprisingly, the rules of ethics do not permit a prosecutor in a criminal case to have sexual relations with a witness and then ask her questions” at trial.
Had Roberts remained on the federal bench in D.C., he may have faced a congressional inquiry as a result of Mitchell’s lawsuit. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, expressed shock at the allegations.
“The Utah Attorney General recently made the committee aware of credible evidence of misconduct by a U.S. District Court Judge. This matter dates back to 1981 when, as a DOJ prosecutor, the judge is alleged to have engaged in inappropriate behavior with a 16-year-old female witness. We will work with the House and Senate Judiciary Committees to determine next best steps to ensure justice is served,” Chaffetz said.
Roberts’s lawyers at Steptoe & Johnson—including top white-collar defender Reid Weingarten—
Prosecutors have a constitutional duty to disclose any information that might help the defense. The Attorney General’s report said Roberts “likely” should have told the defense lawyers about his sexual relationship with a testifying witness in the murder case.
In her lawsuit, Terry Mitchell, now 51, says Roberts “intimidated, coerced, and manipulated” her into having sex for weeks and that the young prosecutor picked her up from home or the courthouse to take her to dinner and then to his hotel room before and during the trial.
The Washington Post does not usually identify victims of sexual assault. Mitchell is identified by name in the lawsuit and, through her attorney, agreed to be named in this story.
Mitchell and Roberts met in 1981, when Roberts was working in the Justice Department’s civil rights division and assigned to prosecute Joseph Paul Franklin, who had been indicted for fatally shooting two black men who were jogging with white women through a Salt Lake City park. Mitchell, then 16, was one of the women and was called as a witness to testify for the prosecution about the deaths of her two friends.
https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/09/08/one-dcs-powerful-judges-got-accused-rape/
https://www.scribd.com/document/390087557/Motion-to-Dismiss
Judges Comments
The Judge retired early with all benifits - it was reported that he would be making more retired than working - You are paying in your taxes for a RAPIEST yearly
“Roberts acknowledges that 35 years ago, as a junior prosecutor, he had an intimate relationship with Ms. Mitchell, who had earlier been a witness in the [Joseph Paul] Franklin trial. But contrary to the allegations, this relationship was entirely consensual. Roberts acknowledges that the relationship was indeed a bad lapse in judgment. However, the relationship did not occur until after the trial and had no bearing on that trial.”
A real "Old Boys Network" guy.
As chief judge, Roberts — who was appointed to the court in 1998 by President Bill Clinton — is in
charge of many sensitive cases, including a civil suit against the federal government brought by Abu
Zubaydah, the senior Al Qaeda operative who claims the United States tortured him during
interrogations at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
In the suit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, the woman, Terry Mitchell, seeks
a jury trial on her claims that Roberts raped her repeatedly in 1981 when she was a witness in the
trial of Joseph Paul Franklin, the white supremacist serial killer who shot Hustler magazine
publisher Larry Flynt.