Judge Says Robbins Is Due Fees Despite Conviction : Courts: Ruling grants former Van Nuys lawmaker funds from partnership for period he spent in prison.

Former state Sen. Alan Robbins is entitled to more than $200,000 in fees from a partnership that owns two Marina del Rey apartment complexes, despite his conviction and imprisonment on political corruption charges, a judge said Friday.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ernest Williams ruled tentatively that the onetime Van Nuys lawmaker can collect management fees from the partnership for the period between his December, 1991, guilty plea and his release from prison last month.

An attorney for the Marina Two partnership said the fees would come to “somewhere between $200,000 and $300,000.” A lawyer for Robbins said the amount would be about $270,000, plus up to $50,000 in interest.

The partnership owns two complexes in Marina del Rey--Bar Harbor and Deauville Marina--that include 400 apartments, 700 boat slips and several commercial properties, including a restaurant.

Both apartment complexes are built on county property and operate under long-term leases, Bar Harbor until 2022 and Deauville Marina until 2021.

Marina Two partner Douglas Ring sued Robbins in June, 1992, contending that public agencies refused to do business with the partnership because of Robbins’ guilty plea and subsequent incarceration at Lompoc federal prison camp.

Robbins countersued, arguing that the partnership’s suit was an excuse to cut him off from guaranteed payments he was supposed to receive under a contract that predated his prison term by several years.

During the trial, Robbins testified that he put together the purchase of the two apartment complexes using funds that came primarily from the late Selden Ring, a wealthy developer. After Ring became ill, his share in the partnership was transferred to his son, Douglas, a lawyer-lobbyist and Los Angeles city library commissioner.

The partnership is trying to dissolve itself, and a trial in that matter is scheduled for April. But an attorney for Robbins said Friday that action is just another attempt to cut Robbins out of Marina Two.

In a separate matter, Robbins is awaiting another judge’s decision over whether he can keep his real estate broker’s license.