Judge Walton Used To Be A Federal Prosecutor

[Me.]

During the trial the judge told Fitz he had the most integrity of any prosecutor who ever came before his bench. He would know. This bodes well.

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“In 1971, CLEO sent Walton to an intensive summer-long program at Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. He graduated near the top of the class, earning an academic scholarship to American University’s Washington College of Law. Law school did not come easy for Walton, who had to study 12 to 13 hours a day, in addition to the various jobs he worked to supplement his scholarship and loans. He graduated in 1974 and took a job as a public defender in Philadelphia. He left that job for a position at D.C.’s United States Attorney’s office in 1976.

Walton’s rise in the legal profession from that point can only be described as meteoric. He became the Chief of the Career Criminal Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 1979 at the age of 30, and during his time in that post, he never lost a case. He was promoted to Executive Assistant to D.C.’s U.S. Attorney - the number three position in the office -.” Cont…


http://www.justicepolicy.org/article.php?id=319

[Me.]

1. Doing The Lifting Here n/t

[H2O Man]

2. In the context

of this case, Judge Walton has been very good.

[DemReadingDU]

3. Noon kick