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Tong (堂) (organization)
Tong (堂), Chinese for association, names fraternal organizations in North American Chinatowns that provided mutual aid to Chinese immigrants and, in some cases, ran vice businesses; the Hip Sing and On Leong tongs fought 19-year tong wars.
Tong Wars
Tong wars were violent conflicts between rival Chinese-American tongs, notably the Hip Sing Tong and On Leong Tong, in New York, San Francisco, and other Chinatowns from the 1880s to the 1920s, fought over gambling, opium, prostitution, and territory.
Tony Accardo
Tony Accardo (Anthony Joseph Accardo, 1906-1992), "Joe Batters" and "Big Tuna," boss of the Chicago Outfit from the 1940s to his death, a former Capone driver and bodyguard whose only conviction, a 1960 tax fraud case, was reversed in 1962.
Tony Martin (farmer)
Tony Martin (Anthony Edward Martin), Norfolk farmer who shot dead 16-year-old burglar Fred Barras at Bleak House in 1999; murder conviction reduced to manslaughter on appeal; released 2003; landmark UK self-defence case.
Tony Mokbel
Tony Mokbel (Antonios Sajih Mokbel, طوني مقبل, "Fat Tony"), Australian drug trafficker, head of The Company in Melbourne's gangland war; fled to Greece 2006, extradited 2008, 30-year sentence later unwound in the Lawyer X scandal, free by 2026.
Tony Soprano
Tony Soprano is the fictional New Jersey mob boss played by James Gandolfini in David Chase's HBO series The Sopranos (1999-2007), a panic-attack-stricken antihero in therapy with Dr. Jennifer Melfi who redefined television drama.
Tower Hill
Tower Hill, open ground north and west of the Tower of London in Trinity Square, was London's public execution site for Tower prisoners, about 125 beheadings and hangings from 1388 to 1780, memorialized by 29 names.
Tracey Wigginton
Tracey Avril Wigginton (born 1965), the Australian "lesbian vampire killer", murdered Edward Baldock in Brisbane in 1989 with three female co-accused so she could drink his blood; life sentence in 1991, paroled January 2012.
Tracie Andrews
Tracie Andrews, British woman convicted in 1997 of murdering her fiancé Lee Harvey in Alvechurch, Worcestershire, in 1996 after inventing a road-rage attacker; sentenced to life, minimum 14 years, released 2011.
Tracy Walker (serial killer)
Tracy Walker, also known as "Solo" (born 1964), an American homeless serial killer who killed three homeless people near Compton Creek, Los Angeles, in 2020–2021, was arrested in February 2021, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 110 years without parole; distinct from other people named Tracy Walker.
Trafficante crime family
Trafficante crime family: Tampa, Florida Mafia family led by Santo Trafficante Sr. and Jr., at its peak from the 1940s to the 1960s, built on bolita gambling, Cuba casinos, and CIA-linked Castro plots.
Trafficking of children
Trafficking of children, or child trafficking, is recruitment, transport, or receipt of under-18s for exploitation, defined by the 2000 Palermo Protocol (185 parties). Children were 38% of detected victims in 2022; risks include poverty, conflict, migration, and technology-facilitated abuse.
Transitional justice
Transitional justice is the set of judicial and non-judicial processes a society uses to come to terms with large-scale past abuses, defined by the United Nations in 2004.
Treason
Treason is the crime of betraying one's country by levying war against it or aiding its enemies. Also covered under related terms such as high treason and the Treason Act 1351, it is the only crime defined in the U.S. Constitution and requires two-witness proof.
Treason laws in the United States
Treason under United States law: the only crime defined in the Constitution, limited to levying war or aiding enemies, proven by two witnesses, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 2381, rarely prosecuted.
Treason Trial
The Treason Trial (1956–1961) was a South African prosecution in which 156 anti-apartheid leaders, including Nelson Mandela, were charged with high treason under the Suppression of Communism Act; all were acquitted.
Tren de Aragua
Tren de Aragua (TdA), the Aragua Train, is a Venezuelan transnational criminal organization founded in Tocorón prison around 2012-2013 under Niño Guerrero, expanded via migrant smuggling into Colombia, Peru, and Chile, designated a US foreign terrorist organization in 2025, and fragmented after the 2023 prison raid.
Triad (organized crime)
Triad (organized crime) is a Chinese organized crime society linked to secret brotherhood societies founded in Fujian in 1761 or 1762, derived from the Tiandihui.
Trial and conviction of Charles Flores
Charles Flores, a Texas death row inmate, was convicted of capital murder in 1999 based primarily on a hypnotically assisted identification made 13 months after the crime.
Trial and execution of José Rizal
Trial and execution of José Rizal: the December 26, 1896 court-martial and December 30, 1896 firing-squad death at Bagumbayan of the Filipino reformer, convicted of illegal association and inciting rebellion, with the contested retraction and Rizal Day legacy.
Trial and sentencing of Robert H. Richards IV
Trial and sentencing of Robert H. Richards IV: 2008-2009 Delaware case in which the du Pont heir pleaded guilty to fourth-degree rape of his three-year-old daughter and received a suspended eight-year sentence served as probation, which became public controversy in 2014.
Trial for the 2022–2023 Brazilian coup plot
Trial for the 2022–2023 Brazilian coup plot (AP 2668): Supreme Federal Court prosecution of Jair Bolsonaro and co-defendants; 4–1 conviction on 11 September 2025, 27-year-3-month sentence, Fux dissent, five nuclei of defendants.
Trial of Alex Murdaugh
Trial of Alex Murdaugh: 2023 Walterboro, South Carolina double-murder trial for the killings of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh; convictions on kennel-video and cellphone evidence, two life sentences, reversed May 2026 with retrial set for 2027.
Trial of Bill Cosby
Trial of Bill Cosby: the Pennsylvania criminal prosecution of William H. Cosby Jr. for the aggravated indecent assault of Andrea Constand, covering the 2017 mistrial, 2018 retrial conviction and 3-to-10-year sentence, and the 2021 vacatur barring retrial.
Trial of Daniel Sickles
The 1859 Washington, D.C. murder trial of Congressman Daniel Sickles for killing Philip Barton Key, his wife's lover; first successful temporary-insanity acquittal in U.S. history.
Trial of George Zimmerman
The 2013 Florida second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman for shooting Trayvon Martin; six-woman jury acquitted him July 13, 2013 after a self-defense case; racially divided reaction and later DOJ closure.
Trial of Hissène Habré
The trial of Hissène Habré was the prosecution of Chad's former president before the Extraordinary African Chambers in Senegal, ending in conviction and life imprisonment in 2016.
Trial of Jeffrey Donaldson
The trial of Jeffrey Donaldson was a criminal prosecution at Newry Crown Court in Northern Ireland concerning sexual offenses against two complainants. Donaldson, a former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, denied.
Trial of Laurent Gbagbo
The trial of Laurent Gbagbo was an International Criminal Court proceeding in which the former Ivorian president and Charles Blé Goudé faced crimes against humanity charges, ending in acquittal.
Trial of Michael Jackson
The 2005 criminal trial of Michael Jackson (People v. Jackson) in Santa Maria, California, on child molestation and conspiracy charges; acquitted on all 10 counts June 13, 2005, after a 3.5-month trial before Judge Rodney Melville.