Free Republic

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...