U.S. District Chief Judge Richard Roberts of the District of Columbia, during Judge Christopher “Casey” Cooper’s official investiture ceremony July 11, 2014. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
A woman who brought sexual assault claims against a former prosecutor and now-inactive federal judge cannot re-file her claims in the future, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled.
Judges Veronica Rossman, Joel Carson and Mary Briscoe dismissed with prejudice Terry Mitchell’s lawsuit against Richard Warren Roberts, an inactive senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Mitchell claims Roberts sexually assaulted her 35 years ago while he was prosecuting a 1981 murder trial in Salt Lake City when she was a teenager serving as a witness.
