D.C. Federal Chief Judge Retires Amid Sexual Abuse Allegations

Judge Richard Roberts denies allegations of assault in decades-old Utah case.

Zoe Tillman, The National Law Journal
March 16, 2016 |

Chief Judge Richard Roberts of Washington's federal trial court sent a letter of retirement to the White House on Wednesday, the same day a woman in Utah filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault 35 years ago when she was a witness in a case he prosecuted. In a statement, Roberts' lawyers said that a consensual "intimate relationship" took place between Roberts and the woman, Terry Mitchell, in 1981, when Mitchell was 16 years old. However, Roberts' lawyers denied the allegations of sexual assault as "categorically false."

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