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George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem (Judge Jeffreys, the Hanging Judge), English judge under Charles II and James II; Lord Chief Justice 1683, Lord Chancellor 1685, notorious for the Bloody Assizes of 1685; died in the Tower in 1689.
George Jung
George Jacob Jung, known as Boston George, was an American drug trafficker who introduced powder cocaine to the United States on a large scale from the mid-1970s.
George L. Russell III
George L. Russell III, born 1965 in Baltimore, is a United States district judge in Maryland since 2012 and its chief district judge since 2024, nominated by President Obama.
George M. Marovich
George M. Marovich, born 1931, is a senior United States district judge of the Northern District of Illinois, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 and taking senior status in 2000.
George Remus
George Remus (1878-1952), German-born Cincinnati pharmacist turned criminal-defense lawyer, became Prohibition's 'King of the Bootleggers' by buying distilleries, diverting medicinal whiskey, and bribing officials; he killed his wife in 1927 and was acquitted by insanity.
George Stinney
George Junius Stinney Jr. was an African American boy from Alcolu, South Carolina, executed in 1944 at age 14, the youngest person executed in the United States that century.
George Washington Williams
George Washington Williams (1849-1891), American soldier, minister, lawyer, Ohio's first Black legislator, and historian who wrote the first comprehensive History of the Negro Race in America and the 1890 Open Letter exposing Congo atrocities under King Leopold II.
George Z. Singal
George Z. Singal is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in Maine, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 2000 and chief judge from 2003 to 2009.
George Zimmerman
George Zimmerman, former Sanford, Florida neighborhood watch volunteer, fatally shot unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012, was charged with second-degree murder, and acquitted in July 2013; later defamation suits were dismissed.
Georges Scelle
Georges Scelle (1878–1961) was a French professor of public international law at Dijon and then the University of Paris, known for the theory of sociological objectivism and the concept of dédoublement fonctionnel.
Georgette Castner
Georgette Castner, born 1979 in Philadelphia, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of New Jersey since 2022, nominated by President Biden.
Georgia Hardstark
Georgia Hardstark is an American podcast host and writer, co-host of the true crime comedy podcast My Favorite Murder (2016) with Karen Kilgariff and co-founder of Exactly Right Media, formerly a Cooking Channel personality.
Georgia N. Alexakis
Georgia N. Alexakis, born Georgia Nick Alexakis, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois since 2024.
Georgia Tann
Georgia Tann, head of the Tennessee Children's Home Society's Memphis branch, ran a black-market adoption scheme from 1924 to 1950, selling over 5,000 children, many abducted, before a 1950 investigation.
Georgia–Russia relations
Georgia–Russia relations: bilateral ties severed 2 September 2008 after the five-day August war and Russia's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia; Switzerland acts as protecting power since 2009, EUMM monitors, EU accession frozen since 2024.
Gerald A. McHugh, Jr.
Gerald Austin McHugh, Jr., born 1954, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2014, nominated by President Barack Obama.
Gerald and Charlene Gallego
Gerald and Charlene Gallego, the 'sex-slave murders' couple, killed at least 10 people in California, Nevada, and Oregon, 1978-1980; arrested in Omaha 1980; Gerald died on death row in 2002; Charlene freed 1997.
Gerald B. Tjoflat
Gerald B. Tjoflat, born 1929, is a senior United States circuit judge of the Eleventh Circuit, appointed by President Gerald Ford in 1975 after serving on the district court.
Gerald J. Pappert
Gerald J. Pappert, born 1963, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2014, appointed by Barack Obama, who previously served as Pennsylvania attorney general.
Gerald Pizzuto
Gerald Ross Pizzuto Jr., Idaho death-row prisoner convicted in 1986 of the 1985 murders of Berta and Del Herndon; his 4-3 clemency recommendation was rejected by Governor Little, upheld on appeal, with ongoing execution-method litigation.
Gerard E. Lynch
Gerard E. Lynch, born 1951, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States circuit judge of the Second Circuit, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009.
German Bar Association
German Bar Association (Deutscher Anwaltverein, DAV): voluntary professional body of about 60,000 German lawyers in 253 local bar associations, founded 1871, seated in Berlin; distinct from the mandatory German Federal Bar (BRAK).
German contract law
German contract law, governed mainly by the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) of 1900, covers contract formation, remedies for breach, good faith, and standard terms; reformed 1 January 2002, no consideration doctrine.
German invasion of Luxembourg
German invasion of Luxembourg, 10 May 1940, part of Fall Gelb: Wehrmacht units of Army Group A overran the neutral Grand Duchy, whose government and Grand Duchess Charlotte fled to London; occupation, annexation as Gau Moselland, and liberation in September 1944 followed.
German nationality law
German nationality law (Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht, StAG, Basic Law Art. 16): citizenship by descent, birth, declaration, adoption, or naturalisation; five-year residence and general dual citizenship since the 27 June 2024 StARModG; Nazi-era restitution under Art. 116(2) and §5 StAG.
German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty
The German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty was signed in Moscow in 1939. It divided the territory of Poland between the two nations and amended their spheres of influence.
German–Soviet Treaty on Good Neighbourliness, Friendship and Cooperation
The German–Soviet Treaty on Good Neighbourliness, Friendship and Cooperation was a twenty-year friendship treaty between West Germany and the Soviet Union, signed by Helmut Kohl and Mikhail Gorbachev in Bonn in 1990.
Gerry Conlon
Gerry Conlon (Gerard Conlon, 1954-2014), Belfast member of the Guildford Four, wrongly convicted in 1975 of the 1974 IRA Guildford pub bombings, imprisoned 15 years until the 1989 quashing, father of the Maguire Seven case, later campaigner portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis in In the Name of the Father.
Gerry Hutch
Gerard "Gerry" Hutch, known as "The Monk", is an Irish former armed robber described by the Special Criminal Court as head of the Hutch Organised Crime Group.
Gerry Spence
Gerry Spence (Gerald Leonard Spence, 1929–2025) was a Wyoming trial lawyer famous for the Silkwood $10.5M verdict, Ruby Ridge and Imelda Marcos defenses, and for founding the Trial Lawyers College.