In 1983, Fred Fielding, the White House counsel, asked Roberts to evaluate a proposal then in circulation to create a kind of super appeals court to assist the Supreme Court with its ostensibly pressing workload.
The first suspect, who was carrying the gun, was said to have been white, in his late 20s, wearing a dark Fred Perry waterproof jacket with a logo on the left breast area, a white hoody underneath, a balaclava and blue jeans.