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Gangs in New Zealand
Gangs in New Zealand, notably the Mongrel Mob, Black Power, King Cobras and Hell's Angels, are post-war organised groups, largely Māori and Pacific, now regulated under the 2024 gang insignia ban.
Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Deputy gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, also called deputy cliques or subgroups (Vikings, Banditos, Executioners), are secretive tattooed deputy groups documented since 1973, linked to misconduct, $55 million in settlements, and 2023 oversight recommendations.
Gangs in the United Kingdom
Gangs in the United Kingdom: legally loosely defined criminal groups (three or more identifiable people under the Policing and Crime Act 2009), studied cautiously by British criminology and policed mainly through county lines drug-dealing enforcement and gang injunctions.
Gangs in the United States
Gangs in the United States: durable, street-oriented, criminally active youth groups with no single accepted definition; traced to about 1783 on the East Coast, measured at 1.4 million members in 33,000 gangs (2011), countered by the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model and focused deterrence.
Gangster
A gangster (also mobster) is a member of an organized group of violent criminals. Distinguished from ordinary gang members by membership in continuing criminal enterprises such as mafias, triads, and yakuza.
Gangster Disciples
The Gangster Disciples, also called the Black Gangster Disciples, are an African-American street gang founded in Chicago in the mid-1960s by Larry Hoover and David Barksdale.
Garden leave
Garden leave, or gardening leave, keeps a departing employee employed and on full pay and contractual benefits during the notice period while instructing them not to work. Unlike PILON it preserves employment; unlike restrictive covenants it applies before termination and usually needs an express contract clause.
Garland E. Burrell, Jr.
Garland E. Burrell, Jr., also known as Garland Ellis Burrell, Jr., is an American former federal judge on the Eastern District of California, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Garland v. Cargill
Garland v. Cargill (2024) is the Supreme Court case, also called the bump stock case, holding that ATF exceeded its authority by classifying bump stocks as machineguns under 26 U.S.C. 5845(b), decided with Thomas writing and Sotomayor dissenting.
Gary A. Fenner
Gary A. Fenner, born 1947, is an American jurist, a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri appointed by President Clinton.
Gary Alan Walker
Gary Alan Walker (born 1953) was an Oklahoma killer who murdered five people, one man and four women, in a 1984 spree and was executed by lethal injection on January 13, 2000.
Gary Gilmore
Gary Mark Gilmore (1940–1977), American convicted murderer in Utah who refused to appeal his 1976 death sentence, chose firing squad, and was executed January 17, 1977, the first U.S. execution after the Furman moratorium; subject of Mailer's The Executioner's Song.
Gary Hilton
Gary Michael Hilton, the National Forest Serial Killer, murdered four people in Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina in 2007-2008; he is on Florida death row for Cheryl Dunlap's murder and serves four consecutive federal life sentences for the Bryant killings.
Gary M. Heidnik
Gary M. Heidnik (born 1943, Philadelphia) murdered two imprisoned women, drew two death sentences in 1988, and was executed in Pennsylvania in 1999; his case shaped next-friend and competency-to-be-executed law.
Gary McKinnon
Gary McKinnon, Scottish hacker known as Solo, accessed 97 US military and NASA computers from London in 2001-2002; his decade-long UK extradition fight ended in 2012 when Theresa May blocked removal on suicide-risk human rights grounds.
Gary Plauché
Gary Plauché, Baton Rouge father who in 1984 shot and killed Jeffrey Doucet, his son Jody's kidnapper and abuser, on live TV; he pleaded no contest to manslaughter and got a suspended sentence.
Gary R. Brown
Gary R. Brown, also known as Gary Richard Brown, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York since 2019.
Gary Ray Bowles
Gary Ray Bowles (1962–2019), the "I-95 killer," was an American serial killer who murdered six older gay men across Florida, Georgia, and Maryland in 1994, reached the FBI Ten Most Wanted list, and was executed in Florida on August 22, 2019.
Gary Ridgway
Gary Leon Ridgway, the Green River Killer, murdered women in the Seattle area from 1982; caught by 2001 DNA matching his 1987 saliva sample, he pleaded guilty to 48 murders in 2003 and a 49th in 2011, serving life without parole in Walla Walla.
Gary S. Katzmann
Gary S. Katzmann (born 1953) is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of International Trade since 2016, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Gas chamber
Gas chamber: airtight execution room using lethal gas, historically hydrogen cyanide from cyanide and acid. Adopted by Nevada in 1921; about 600 US executions before 1972; last known, Walter LaGrand, Arizona, 1999.
Gavel
A gavel is a small wooden mallet struck by a judge, presiding officer, or auctioneer to call for attention or to signal that a bid has been accepted.
Gavelkind
Gavelkind, the custom of Kent (also found in small areas elsewhere), was an Anglo-Saxon-origin land tenure dividing a father's land equally among all sons, with privileges such as felony protection, half dower, and free alienation, abolished by the Administration of Estates Act 1925.
Gaza genocide recognition
Gaza genocide recognition: acts by UN bodies, the ICJ (South Africa v. Israel), human rights organizations like Amnesty, HRW, B'Tselem, genocide scholars, and states declaring Israel's Gaza conduct genocide, with Israeli denial and contested criticism.
Geeta and Sanjay Chopra kidnapping case
The Geeta and Sanjay Chopra kidnapping case, also known as the Ranga-Singh case, was a 1978 murder in New Delhi where two siblings were abducted. (22 words)
Genaro García Luna
Genaro García Luna, Mexico's secretary of public security 2006-2012 under Calderón, was convicted in Brooklyn in 2023 of Sinaloa Cartel bribery and sentenced to 460 months and a $2 million fine, with billions in Florida civil judgments.
Genene Jones
Genene Ann Jones (born 1950), Texas pediatric nurse nicknamed the "Death Shift" nurse, convicted in 1984 of murdering Chelsea McClellan and in 2020 pleaded guilty to killing Joshua Sawyer; suspected in dozens of infant deaths.
General counsel
The general counsel (GC), or chief legal officer, is the senior attorney representing a business, reporting to executive leadership. Once a liaison role diminished in the 1940s, it has become a strategic C-suite position with board access and rising AI duties.
General Motors streetcar conspiracy
The General Motors streetcar conspiracy alleges GM and National City Lines destroyed US electric rail transit. A 1949 antitrust conviction covered monopolizing bus sales, not destroying streetcars; historians dispute the broader claim.
Generic trademark
Generic trademark: a term that names an entire product class, such as 'bicycle' for bicycles, rather than a brand. Not registrable; famous lost marks include aspirin, escalator, thermos, yo-yo, and cellophane through genericide.