Posted on 10/30/2017 2:29:26 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
The judge Paul Manafort and Rick Gates will appear before has experienced the criminal justice system firsthand -- when her son was convicted of dealing heroin.
The case will then be handed over to an Obama-appointed judge who donated $1,000 to former President Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.
U.S. District Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson, the preliminary judge, has overseen cases involving former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry and NBA player Allen Iverson.
In 2014, she watched her son, Philip Robinson Winkfield, get led away in handcuffs after he was sentenced to five years in prison for possession of heroin and intent to distribute.
Robinson also boosted a fine from $10,000 to $50,000 for former national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, Sandy Berger.
Robinson presided in the trial of Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Libby was sentenced to two and a half years in prison but had his sentence commuted by President George W. Bush.
After the preliminary phase, the case will be handed over to U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama in 2011.
Earlier this year, Jackson dismissed a lawsuit brought against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by relatives of victims of the 2012 Benghazi attack.
Jackson ruled that Clinton neither enabled the attack by communicating through her private email server, nor did she defame the victims families in the aftermath.
Jackson also contributed $1,000 to Clinton's 1992 Democratic presidential campaign and while previously working at a law firm, represented former Democratic congressman William J. Jefferson in a corruption trial, the Washington Post reported.
The Louisiana congressman was sentenced to 13 years in prison on bribery charges after being caught hiding $90,000 in cash in his freezer.
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P-hat wearing pinky “Moms” Against America?
Biased Dem prosecutor. Biased Dem judge. Which party controls the House, Senate and Presidency again?
I give up.
Who does?
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