Peter Robinson (born April 6, 1953) is an American lawyer who has defended political and military leaders at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals.
[1] Robinson also prosecuted a number of officials and customers of Centennial Savings and Loan Association,[7] a Santa Rosa, California institution that collapsed in the 1980s.
[1][10] In 2010, Robinson refused to proceed with the trial of Joseph Nzirorera after one of his colleagues, Peter Erlinder, was arrested in Rwanda for "genocide denial".
[11] Robinson returned to the ICTR in March 2011 when he represented former Rwandan Minister of Defence Marcel Gatsinzi, who was called as a witness before the Appeals Chamber in the case of General Theoneste Bagosora.
In 2011, Robinson was retained by Courtenay Griffiths, lead counsel to former Liberian President Charles Taylor at the Special Court of Sierra Leone.
[21] On March 20, 2019, the IRMCT Appeals Chamber confirmed Karadzic's convictions and his acquittal for genocide, and increased his sentence to life imprisonment.
[22] In 2015, Robinson began representing Jean de dieu Kamuhanda, the former Rwandan Minister of Higher Education, who is serving a life sentence after being convicted at the ICTR for the massacre of thousands of Tutsis at Gikomero Parish in Kigali-Rural prefecture.
He represented former Rwanda Minister of Planning Augustin Ngirabatware, who contended that he had nothing to do with the distribution of weapons and incitement of the population in the town of Gisenyi.
[27] In December 2021, unable to rejoin his family in France, Nzuwonemeye was relocated by the Residual Mechanism to Niger along with seven other acquitted or released persons from the ICTR.