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Trial of Oscar Pistorius
Trial of Oscar Pistorius: 2014 Pretoria High Court prosecution of the Paralympic sprinter for killing Reeva Steenkamp; culpable homicide verdict upgraded to murder (dolus eventualis) on appeal; 13 years 5 months; paroled January 2024.
Trial of Saddam Hussein
Trial of Saddam Hussein: 2005-2006 prosecution of Iraq's former president before the Iraqi High Tribunal for the 1982 Dujail massacre; conviction for crimes against humanity on November 5, 2006, death sentence, and execution on December 30, 2006.
Trial of Satanta and Big Tree
The Trial of Satanta and Big Tree was an 1871 Texas court case in which two Kiowa leaders were convicted of murder for the Warren Wagon Train raid.
Trial of Sean Combs
Trial of Sean Combs (Diddy): 2025 federal SDNY case before Judge Arun Subramanian; convicted on two Mann Act prostitution-transportation counts, acquitted of racketeering and sex trafficking; sentenced to 50 months and a $500,000 fine, now on appeal.
Trial of Sean Dunn
Trial of Sean Dunn, formally United States v. Dunn (D.D.C. 1:25-cr-252), the 2025 'sandwich guy' case: a jury acquitted the former DOJ paralegal of misdemeanor assault under 18 U.S.C. 111 after a grand jury rejected a felony indictment.
Trial of Sheikh Hasina
Trial of Sheikh Hasina: ICT-1 Dhaka trial in absentia of the deposed Bangladeshi prime minister, with former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and ex-IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, for crimes against humanity in the 2024 July uprising; verdict 17 November 2025, death sentences for Hasina and Kamal, five years for Mamun.
Trial of Soldier F
Trial of Soldier F: Belfast Crown Court prosecution of an anonymous ex-Parachute Regiment lance corporal for two Bloody Sunday murders and five attempted murders (30 January 1972, Derry); acquitted on all counts by Judge Lynch KC on 23 October 2025.
Trial of the Juntas
The Trial of the Juntas (Juicio a las Juntas) was Argentina's 1985 prosecution of nine former military commanders for human rights crimes committed during the 1976–1983 dictatorship.
Trial of the Nine Trey Gangsters
Trial of the Nine Trey Gangsters: 2019 SDNY federal racketeering case against Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods members, famous for Tekashi 6ix9ine's cooperation; Mack and Ellison convicted October 3, 2019.
Trial of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine
The Trial of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine (Спілка визволення України, SVU) was a Soviet show trial in Kharkiv in 1930, convicting 45 Ukrainian intellectuals of a fictitious organization.
Trials for crimes against humanity in Argentina
The Trials for crimes against humanity in Argentina, known as Juicios por delitos de lesa humanidad, are federal prosecutions for dictatorship-era crimes, resumed in 2001.
Trinitarios
Trinitarios (3NI, La Trinitaria): transnational Dominican street and prison gang founded in the New York correctional system (late 1980s to early 1990s), known for drug trafficking, extreme violence, machete use, rivalry with DDP, and RICO prosecutions in Massachusetts, New York, and Spain.
Troy Davis
Troy Anthony Davis, Georgia death row inmate convicted in 1991 of the 1989 murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail; seven of nine eyewitnesses recanted, no physical evidence, executed September 21, 2011.
True crime
True crime: nonfiction genre narrating real criminal events with fiction-like storytelling across books, TV, podcasts, and streaming. Key facts: In Cold Blood founding work, Serial's 5 million downloads, 230 million US consumers, ethics and accuracy debates.
Trung Duc Lu
Trung Duc Lu (Lư Đức Trung), Vietnamese-born fugitive and suspected Born to Kill (BTK/Canal Boys) gang member, added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted list March 11, 2026 as its 539th fugitive for the 2014 torture, kidnapping, and murder of two Vietnamese brothers in Philadelphia; $1 million reward, last confirmed in Vietnam.
Trương Mỹ Lan
Trương Mỹ Lan (张美兰) — Vietnamese real estate tycoon, chairwoman of Van Thinh Phat, secretly controlled SCB and embezzled $12.5 billion, Vietnam's largest fraud; sentenced to death April 2024.
Truth and reconciliation commission
A truth and reconciliation commission is an official, temporary, non-judicial body that investigates past atrocities and human rights abuses, ending with a final public report; it cannot prosecute.
Truth Be Told (2019 TV series)
Truth Be Told is a 2019 American crime drama on Apple TV+, created by Nichelle Tramble Spellman, based on Kathleen Barber's novel Are You Sleeping, and starring Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul.
Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (Mali)
The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (CVJR) was a Malian truth commission established in 2014 to investigate human rights abuses from 1960 through the 2012 crisis, collecting over 31,000 depositions before ending in 2022.
Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) was a truth commission of The Gambia, established in 2017 to investigate human rights abuses committed during Yahya Jammeh's 22-year rule.
Tsutomu Miyazaki (宮崎勤)
Tsutomu Miyazaki (宮崎勤), executed 17 June 2008 at age 45, was the Japanese serial killer called the Otaku Murderer, who abducted and murdered four girls aged 4 to 7 in Tokyo and Saitama in 1988–1989; death sentence finalized 2006.
Turkish mafia
Turkish mafia: organized crime groups of Turkish origin in Turkey and the European diaspora, rooted in Laz migrant syndicates of early-20th-century Istanbul, historically dominant in the Balkan heroin route and now active in cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking.
Turn state's evidence
Turning state's evidence, also called turning King's or Queen's evidence, is when a defendant testifies against accomplices in exchange for reduced charges or a lighter sentence.
Turpin case
The Turpin case: 2018 Perris, California prosecution of David and Louise Turpin for torturing and starving their 13 children; guilty pleas, 25-years-to-life sentences, and the 2022 Larson Report on Riverside County's failed aftercare.
Twilight Zone accident
1982 helicopter crash during filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie at Indian Dunes, California, killed Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Chen; John Landis's manslaughter trial ended in acquittal but reshaped set-safety rules.
Twin Towers Correctional Facility
Twin Towers Correctional Facility (TTCF) is the Los Angeles County Sheriff's high-rise jail at 450 Bauchet St., downtown Los Angeles, opened 1997, housing maximum-security inmates and serving as the county jail system's main mental health facility.
Twinkie defense
Twinkie defense: popular name for Dan White's 1979 diminished-capacity defense in the Moscone-Milk killings, where junk food was cited as evidence of depression; the term prompted California's abolition of diminished capacity.
Types of prostitution in modern Japan
Types of prostitution in modern Japan (売春): despite the 1956 Anti-Prostitution Law banning intercourse for compensation, a diversified industry of soaplands, fashion health, sexy cabarets, and host clubs operates under adult-entertainment regulation.
Types of rape
Types of rape, also called categories of sexual assault: statutory rape, marital rape, acquaintance and date rape, prison rape, and conflict-related sexual violence, distinguished by consent- versus coercion-based legal models across jurisdictions.
Umar Farooq Zahoor (عمر فاروق ظہور)
Umar Farooq Zahoor (عمر فاروق ظہور), also styled Sheikh Umar Farooq, is a Norwegian-Pakistani Dubai-based businessman, Toshakhana gift buyer in the Imran Khan case, and former Nordea fraud suspect whose case Norway dismissed in 2026.