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Gershwin A. Drain
Gershwin A. Drain, born 1949, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2012.
Get (גט) (divorce document)
A get, also spelled Ghet (גט), is the formal bill of divorce in Jewish law, written by a scribe and delivered by the husband to his wife.
Get enforcement analogues for Islamic divorce
Get enforcement analogs are civil statutory laws that pressure a spouse to remove religious barriers to the other's remarriage, developed around the Jewish get and applicable to the Islamic talaq.
Getúlio Vargas
Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (1882–1954), Brazilian statesman from São Borja, led the 1930 Revolution, ruled 1930–45 (Provisional Government, constitutional presidency, Estado Novo dictatorship), created the CLT labor code and Petrobras, and was elected president again in 1950 before his 1954 suicide.
Gheorghe Alexianu
Gheorghe Alexianu (1897–1946), Romanian jurist and professor, civil governor of Transnistria 1941–1944 under Ion Antonescu; ordered the Odesa Jewish deportations; executed in 1946 for war crimes.
Ghislaine Maxwell
Ghislaine Maxwell is a British former socialite convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking and related offenses involving Jeffrey Epstein. Sentenced to 20 years, she unsuccessfully challenged the conviction on appeal.
Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah
Sir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah (1879–1948) was a Sindhi lawyer and politician who became Sindh's first Chief Minister in 1937 and its first Governor in 1947.
Gibbeting
Gibbeting, or hanging in chains, was a British post-execution punishment placing an executed criminal's body in an iron cage on a tall pole. Regulated by the 1752 Murder Act, it gibbeted 144 people, ended with James Cook in 1832, and was abolished in 1834; live gibbeting in Britain is legend.
Gibbons v. Ogden
Gibbons v. Ogden (22 U.S. 1, 1824), the Steamboat Case: Supreme Court decision by Chief Justice Marshall holding that Congress's Commerce Clause power covers navigation and that federal law supersedes New York's Livingston-Fulton steamboat monopoly.
Gibson's Bakery v. Oberlin College
Gibson's Bakery v. Oberlin College is a 2017 Ohio defamation case in which the bakery won libel, interference, and emotional-distress verdicts over Oberlin College; final payment was $36.59 million in 2022.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), the unanimous Supreme Court decision holding that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel is fundamental and binds states via the Fourteenth Amendment, requiring appointed counsel for indigent defendants and overruling Betts v. Brady.
Gil Garcetti
Gil Garcetti (born 1941) is an American prosecutor, Los Angeles County District Attorney 1992-2000 who oversaw the O.J. Simpson and Menendez trials, created SAGE and CLEAR anti-gang programs, and later became a photographer.
Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela
Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela (El Ajedrecista), with brother Miguel, led Colombia's Cali Cartel, which trafficked about 80% of world cocaine by the early 1990s; arrested 1995, extradited 2004, pled guilty 2006, sentenced 30 years, died in U.S. prison 2022.
Giles Corey
Giles Corey (c. 1611–1692), Salem Farms farmer, refused to plead at his 1692 witchcraft trial and was pressed to death by peine forte et dure, the only such court-ordered death in American history; husband of Martha Corey.
Gilgo Beach serial killings
Gilgo Beach serial killings: Long Island murders of escorts, 1993–2010, exposed December 2010 when the "Gilgo Four" were found along Ocean Parkway. Rex Heuermann, arrested 2023, pleaded guilty in 2026 to seven murders plus an admitted eighth and received life without parole.
Gillick competence
Gillick competence is English and Welsh common law allowing children under 16 to consent to medical treatment if they show sufficient understanding, from Gillick v West Norfolk [1985] UKHL 7, related to the Fraser guidelines.
Gilligan family murders
Gilligan family murders: January 14, 1980 killings of Patrick, Teresa, Lisa, and Gregory Gilligan in Vandenburgh County, Indiana, by Donald Ray Wallace Jr. during a burglary; he was sentenced to death in 1982 and executed in 2005.
Gina M. Groh
Gina Marie Groh, born 1964, is a United States district judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2012.
Gina R. Méndez-Miró
Gina Raquel Méndez-Miró, born 1974 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a United States district judge for the District of Puerto Rico since 2023, nominated by President Biden.
Giovanni Brusca
Giovanni Brusca, nicknamed u verru and lo scannacristiani, is a Sicilian Cosa Nostra boss born 1957 in San Giuseppe Jato who detonated the 1992 Capaci bomb killing Falcone, confessed to over 150 murders, became a justice collaborator, and was fully released in 2025.
Giovanni Falcone
Giovanni Falcone (1939–1992), Italian antimafia magistrate of Palermo; creator of the 'follow the money' Falcone method, leader of the maxiprocesso di Palermo (360 convictions, 19 life sentences), killed in the Capaci bombing on 23 May 1992.
Giovanni Paolo Lancelotti
Giovanni Paolo Lancelotti, also spelled Lancellotti, was an Italian canonist and law professor at Perugia whose 1563 Institutiones iuris canonici became the standard textbook for over two centuries.
Gitlow v. New York
Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925): Supreme Court case upholding Benjamin Gitlow's criminal anarchy conviction for the Left Wing Manifesto while first applying First Amendment speech and press rights to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment.
Giulia Tofana
Giulia Tofana, actually Giulia Mangiardi, was the legendary 17th-century Sicilian-born poisoner associated with Aqua Tofana, an arsenic poison; archival research shows she died in Rome in 1651 and was never prosecuted.
Glass–Steagall legislation
Glass-Steagall legislation: four provisions of the US Banking Act of 1933, also the 1932 Banking Act name, separating commercial and investment banking and creating the FDIC; repealed by Gramm-Leach-Bliley in 1999.
Glen Edward Rogers
Glen Edward Rogers, the Cross Country Killer or Casanova Killer, was an American suspected serial killer from Hamilton, Ohio, executed by Florida on May 15, 2025, for the 1995 murder of Tina Marie Cribbs, with a separate California death sentence for Sandra Gallagher.
Glen H. Davidson
Glen H. Davidson, born in 1941, is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge in Mississippi from 1985 until taking senior status in 2007.
Glen Ward (criminal)
Glen Ward, nicknamed "Mr Flashy", is an Irish organised crime figure from Finglas, Dublin, named in the High Court as leader of the "Gucci Gang" with Kinahan links; jailed in 2025 for firing an AR-15 rifle.
Glenn T. Suddaby
Glenn T. Suddaby is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, appointed by George W. Bush in 2008.
Glico Morinaga case
Glico Morinaga case (グリコ・森永事件): unsolved 1984–85 Japanese corporate extortion series by the 'Monster with 21 Faces', including the Glico president kidnapping, cyanide-laced candy on shelves, and NPA wide-area case No. 114, time-barred in 2000.