Robin Keith Annesley Ficker (born April 5, 1943) is an American political activist, real estate broker, former[4] attorney (disbarred), former state legislator, sports heckler, and perennial candidate from Maryland.

[9][10] His first case, seeking to end the National Football League's blackout of sold-out home games, went to the Supreme Court of the United States.

[11] In 1973, Ficker, representing Deborah Drudge, gained a consent judgment signed by Federal District Court Judge Roszel C. Thomsen, forbidding evaluations based on facial features and physique, for positions in the office of the Montgomery County Attorney.

On January 6, 1986, U.S. District Court Judge Norman Ramsey ordered, in a suit brought by Ficker against the Montgomery County Board of Elections, that Md.

Ficker won two landmark injunctions preventing the state of Maryland from denying access to serious traffic and criminal court records.

In 1997, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Ficker successfully challenged the constitutionality of a Maryland law forbidding lawyers from targeted direct-mail solicitation of criminal and traffic defendants within 30 days of arrest.

[13] In 2013, Ficker represented a Hyattsville man who was found not guilty by a jury of all 23 counts in a case of attempted murder, armed robbery, carjacking, assault and eluding police, among other charges.

[14] In 2013, Ficker received widespread attention for securing school suspension reversals and disciplinary record expungement for children aged 5 to 7.

[16] A Virginia six-year-old had been suspended for pointing his finger at another student who pretended to shoot him with a bow and arrow after their class had studied Native American culture.

[17][18] A five-year-old Southern Maryland child had been suspended for 10 days for bringing a cap gun onto a school bus to show a friend.

[21] Ficker called Wint "kind and gentle" and said that authorities had arrested "the wrong guy" in the murder case: "They've made a big mistake here.

[24] In 1990, Ficker was publicly reprimanded by the Maryland Court of Appeals upon a finding that he had violated ethical rules prohibiting neglect, engaged in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice, and lack of diligence.

[25] In March 1998, he was indefinitely suspended from the practice of law, with the right to reapply for admission after 120 days, arising from violations related to competence, diligence, fairness to opposing counsel and parties, supervising lawyers and conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice.

The Court of Appeals order also stated he violated the Maryland Rules of Professional Conduct in 2013 by hiring a disbarred lawyer in a non-lawyer capacity without alerting bar counsel.

In 1972, he ran for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives in Maryland's 8th congressional district, blanketing Montgomery County with "Our Friend Ficker" campaign signs on utility poles, trees and traffic lights, which resulted in county officials seeking an injunction to stop the placement of these signs on public property.

[44] Ficker was a candidate in the 2012 Republican primary for the newly redrawn 6th congressional district seat held by 10-term incumbent Roscoe Bartlett,[45] finishing fifth in an eight-candidate field.

[46] Ficker ran unopposed for the 2014 Republican nomination for the District 15 State Senate seat in western Montgomery County.

[56] He was photographed holding a sign reading "Robin for Governor",[57] apparently confirming reports that he planned to run in the 2022 Maryland gubernatorial election.

[69] The measure requires the nine-member Montgomery County Council to vote unanimously to raise property tax revenue above the local limit.

His daughter, Desiree Ficker, is a top female professional triathlete, finishing second at the 2006 Ironman Triathlon World Championships in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

[88] In 1996, Ficker was acquitted of destruction of property in a 1995 traffic incident and saw battery charges dropped by the State's Attorney after a jury deadlocked 10–2 in favor of acquittal.

[89][90] In the traffic incident the pregnant driver of the car Ficker allegedly hit reported that he struck her in the face, breaking her glasses.