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This law clerk reported that on October 3, 2022, about a week after she left
her clerkship and began her new job as an AUSA for the District of Alaska, Judge
Kindred asked her if she would like to get drinks. The law clerk stated that
halfway through the evening, Judge Kindred said that “there’s always been
something between us, right?” The law clerk stated that she was intoxicated, and
Judge Kindred was also likely intoxicated.
At the end of the night, Judge Kindred offered to drive the clerk home but
said that he needed to stop by the courthouse and asked her to come upstairs to his
chambers. He asked her to sit on the couch with him, but the clerk sat on the
couch across from him. The law clerk reported that, at some point, Judge Kindred
kissed her and grabbed her buttocks. She reported that she did not instigate the
kiss. She indicated that it was brief, “just like smooch,” and almost immediately
afterwards, Judge Kindred dropped her home.
Judge Kindred’s version of events, as told to the Committee in his written
responses and in his interview, differs markedly from the law clerk’s: He stated
that it was the law clerk who asked to meet for drinks; that she told him she was in
love with him; that the law clerk said she wanted to come up to chambers; that she
initiated two kisses in chambers; that he never sat on a couch; and that she
propositioned him on the way home. However, these denials were belied by
documentary evidence and, as revealed later during Judge Kindred’s testimony to
the Judicial Council, by Judge Kindred’s own admissions.
The next time Judge Kindred was alone with the law clerk was on October 7,
2022, when Judge Kindred was moving out of his home, and the clerk still in his
employ decided to throw him a pizza party. The law clerk reported that she did not
speak one-on-one with Judge Kindred at the pizza party. However, Judge Kindred
kept asking the law clerk to sit with him on the couch. She kept saying no but she
thought, “Are you hitting on me openly in front of the clerks now?” The law clerk
eventually left the party. She stated that Judge Kindred then texted her, and she
told him that they needed to talk in person, so she asked Judge Kindred to pick her
up. Initially, they were talking in his truck outside her house, but it was cold, so
Judge Kindred suggested they go to his temporary apartment.
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The law clerk reported that, immediately after arriving at the apartment,
Judge Kindred went to one of the bedrooms. Judge Kindred kept shouting to the
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This apartment was referred to in testimony as an “Airbnb,” but it was in fact an apartment
belonging to an acquaintance of Judge Kindred.