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After law school, she worked in private practice for three years, then joined the District of Columbia Public Defender Service (PDS), where she worked as a trial attorney and supervisor. During her tenure at PDS, she argued several appellate cases and tried over 30 cases, including numerous serious felony matters. Eleven years later, she left PDS to join Boies, Schiller, & Flexner LLP, where she specialized in litigation and white collar criminal defense. During her 12 years at the firm, her clients included antitrust class action plaintiffs, as well as individual and corporate defendants involved in complex state and federal litigation.
From 1996 2000 Judge Chutkan was a member of the Steering Committee for the Criminal Law and Individual Rights Section of the District of Columbia Bar. She is a frequent lecturer on trial techniques and she has served as a faculty member at the Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop.
This is the sorry leftist that rules against conservatives as a knee jerk reaction.
In this case my instincts tell me that this “secret order” is to stall a prosecution and discovery. Or to help the prosecutions’ allies to stall the discovery.