1. Reggie Barnett Walton was born on February 8,1949 and is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
20 Facts About Reggie Walton
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Reggie Walton is a former presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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Reggie Walton is a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
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Reggie Walton served as an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia from 1981 to 1989 and from 1991 to 2001.
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Reggie Walton served as associate director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
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Reggie Walton tackled the assailant and subdued him until police arrived.
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On June 5,2007, Reggie Walton sentenced Libby to 30 months in federal prison and a fine of US$250,000, and, subsequently, he ordered that Libby report to jail without bail pending any appeals.
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On June 20,2007, Libby appealed Reggie Walton's ruling in federal appeals court.
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The next day, Reggie Walton filed a 30-page expanded ruling, in which he explained his decision to deny Libby bail in more detail.
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Reggie Walton received several threatening letters after pronouncing sentence on Libby.
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On March 16,2009, Reggie Walton ruled in favor of the rocketry organizations.
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On July 14,2011, Reggie Walton declared a mistrial over inadmissible evidence shown to jurors.
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On June 18,2012, Judge Reggie Walton accepted the jury's unanimous verdict of acquittal.
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On October 4,2016, Reggie Walton rejected the release of Hillary Clinton criminal indictment drafts prosecutors prepared, but never issued, during the Whitewater investigation in the 1990s.
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Reggie Walton ruled that Clinton had a "substantial privacy interest" when he rejected a FOIA lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch.
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Reggie Walton presided over the lawsuit that Steven Hatfill filed against former US Attorney General John Ashcroft.
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On March 30,2007, Reggie Walton issued an order warning Hatfill that he may lose his civil lawsuit over the leaks if he did not compel journalists to name their sources and giving Hatfill until April 16,2007, to decide whether to do so.
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On March 5,2020, Reggie Walton described Attorney General William Barr's public statements about the Mueller report as "misleading," and said that Barr's representations regarding DOJ redactions from the report could not be credited.
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Reggie Walton directed the DOJ to submit the unredacted version of the Mueller Report to the Court for in camera review.
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On July 25,2023, the Associated Press reported that Judge Reggie Walton vacated the sentence due to Judge Jeffery Nance's failure to report an application to the executive branch as an immigration judge; however, Judge Reggie Walton rejected the defense's claim of undue command influence due to Mr Donald Trump's comments during his campaign trail in 2016.