Judge Maryellen Noreika, a 57-year-old former patent and intellectual property litigator, is not an especially high-profile figure in the small legal community in the country’s second-smallest state.
Records show she had not worked on criminal cases or presided over a courtroom before President Donald J. Trump nominated her to the federal bench in 2017.
She stunned everyone in the courtroom by refusing to approve a deal that would have settled tax and gun charges against Mr. Biden.
Then she sent the lawyers back to the drawing board.
He selected her, he said, as a research assistant to help supervise a group of law students for a large project for the Federal Judicial Center, the education and research agency of the United States federal courts.
Persons:
Judge Maryellen Noreika, Donald J, Trump, Hunter Biden, Mr, Biden, Arthur Hellman, Judge Noreika
Organizations:
Records, Court, Justice Department, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Federal Judicial Center, United
Locations:
Wilmington, Del, United States