Who is Judge Robert Adrian who overturned Drew Clinton’s rape verdict?

Who is Judge Robert Adrian who overturned Drew Clinton’s rape verdict?




But despite the October conviction for felony sexual assault, Judge Adrian on 3 January freed Clintonwho faced a minimum sentence of four yearsfrom jail after a mere 148 日々, saying that was “plenty of punishment”.


Who is Judge Adrian?





Why is he making headlines now?

In an extraordinary move on 3 1月, Judge Adrian reversed Clinton’s conviction and allowed him to walk free at a hearing where the teen was slated to receive a minimum sentence of four years behind bars.




On hearing the decision, the survivor, who revealed her identity in order to speak out about the case and campaign for justice but is not being named by 独立者, said she fled the courtroom.

“I immediately had to leave the courtroom and go to the bathroom. I was crying," 彼女は言いました, according to WGEM.

Describing her ordeal, 彼女は言いました: “I woke up at my friend’s place with a pillow over my face so I couldn’t be heard and Drew Clinton inside of me.


彼女の父, スコット, に話しかけた 独立者 about the ordeal on Thursday and accused Judge Adrian of “muzzling” his daughter by blocking her from delivering a victim impact statement.







“Your job as a judge is to uphold the law, not take the law into your own hands… you found him guilty," 彼は言った. “Your job was to sentence him, and because you couldn’t change the law, the only thing you could do was change the verdict. What gives you the right to take the law into your own hands?」

What repercussions has Judge Adrian faced?


その間, a 嘆願 demanding the judge face charges over “abuse of judicial discretion and power” has garnered more than 20,000 署名.


"しかしながら, on January 3, 2022, this very same Judge Adrian reversed his own ruling and declared the defendant was not guilty.”




“This is what happens when parents do not exercise their parental responsibilities, when we have people, 大人, having parties for teenagers, and they allow coeds and female people to swim in their underwear in their swimming pool. そして, いいえ, underwear is not the same as swimming suits," 彼は言った. “They allowed 16-year-olds to bring liquor to a party. They provided liquor to underage people, and you wonder how these things happen. 上手, that’s how these things happen. The court is totally disgusted with that whole thing.”