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Hatch Act
The Hatch Act is a 1939 United States federal law limiting political activities of federal employees while on duty, in the workplace, or in official capacity.
Hate crime
Hate crime: a criminal offense motivated in whole or in part by bias against protected characteristics such as race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity; distinct from non-criminal hate incidents, and significantly undercounted in official statistics.
Hate crime laws in the United States
Hate crime laws in the United States: federal statutes from the 1968 civil rights laws to the 2009 Shepard-Byrd Act, plus state penalty-enhancement and data-collection laws covering bias-motivated crimes against race, religion, gender identity, and other protected characteristics.
Hate Crime Statistics Act
Hate Crime Statistics Act: 1990 U.S. federal law, amended 1994, requiring federal tracking of bias-motivated crimes; implemented through the FBI UCR Hate Crime Statistics Data Collection.
Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary
The Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary, April 2015: a gang drilled through a London vault wall over Easter and emptied 73 boxes, stealing valuables valued at £14m to £25m; ringleaders got seven-year sentences.
Hawaii Admission Act
Hawaii Admission Act, Public Law 86-3 (March 18, 1959), the federal law admitting the Territory of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state, ratifying the 1950 constitution, followed by the June 27 plebiscite and Proclamation 3309 of August 21, 1959.
Hawley Harvey Crippen
Hawley Harvey Crippen (1862-1910), American-born London practitioner convicted of murdering his wife Cora (Belle Elmore) at Hilldrop Crescent; first criminal caught by wireless telegraphy; 2011 DNA study disputes the identification of the remains.
Hayden W. Head, Jr.
Hayden W. Head, Jr., also known as Hayden Wilson Head, Jr., is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Texas, appointed by President Ronald Reagan.
Haywa ibn Shurayh
Haywa ibn Shurayh (حيوة بن شريح), also known as Abu Zur'a, was an Egyptian hadith transmitter, jurist, and ascetic who refused the judgeship of Egypt in 761 and died in 775.
Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr.
Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of California since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Hearsay
Hearsay is an out-of-court statement offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted, presumptively excluded at common law and under FRE 801-802, subject to exceptions and the Crawford confrontation limits.
Heather Pressdee
Heather Pressdee is a former Pennsylvania registered nurse who in 2024 pleaded guilty to murdering three nursing home patients with insulin and attempting to murder 19 others.
Hebephilia
Hebephilia is sexual interest in pubescent children (about ages 11-14), between pedophilia and ephebophilia. Proposed for DSM-5 as pedohebephilia but rejected; absent from DSM-5 and ICD-11.
Héctor Beltrán Leyva
Héctor Beltrán Leyva, alias "El H", led the Beltrán Leyva Organization after his brother Arturo's 2009 death, was arrested in San Miguel de Allende in October 2014, and died in Altiplano prison in 2018.
Hector Gonzalez
Hector Gonzalez, born 1964 in Havana, Cuba, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York since 2022.
Héctor Luis Palma Salazar
Héctor Luis "El Güero" Palma Salazar, Mexican drug trafficker and co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel with El Chapo Guzmán; arrested 1995, extradited 2007, released 2016, recaptured, acquitted 2021, still imprisoned at Altiplano.
Hector-Louis Langevin
Sir Hector-Louis Langevin, also known as Hector Langevin, was a Canadian Conservative politician and Father of Confederation who helped draft the 1867 constitution and served as Minister of Public Works.
Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd
Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd v Heller & Partners Ltd [1964] AC 465, House of Lords 1963 negligent misstatement case: established duty of care for pure economic loss from careless advice, defeated by Heller's 'without responsibility' disclaimer; foundation of professional negligence law, later shaped by Caparo and Henderson v Merrett.
Heidi Fleiss
Heidi Fleiss, also known as Heidi Lynne Fleiss, is an American former madam who ran a high-priced call-girl ring serving wealthy clients in Los Angeles in the early 1990s.
Heinrich Kramer
Heinrich Kramer (Henricus Institoris), ca. 1430-1505, Dominican inquisitor from Schlettstadt, Alsace, author of the Malleus Maleficarum (1487), the witch-hunting manual; failed Innsbruck trial of 1485; Sprenger co-authorship largely rejected.
Heirloom
An heirloom is a valued family possession passed down generations; in strict English law, a chattel passing by custom with land to the heir, abolished in 1925, now mainly an estate-planning and horticultural term.
Heist film
Heist film, also called caper film: a crime-film subgenre about planning and executing a spectacular theft by a specialist crew. Defined by Rififi (1955); grew from film noir, peaked in 1960s capers and 2000s remakes.
Helen Prejean
Helen Prejean, also Sister Helen Prejean, is an American Catholic nun (Sisters of St. Joseph) and death penalty abolitionist; author of Dead Man Walking (1993), spiritual advisor to Louisiana death row inmates, and advocate behind Catholic Catechism changes.
Helen W. Gillmor
Helen W. Gillmor, born 1942, is a senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1994.
Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws
Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws (born 1950), Scottish barrister, Labour peer, and human rights lawyer; founding member of Doughty Street Chambers, QC in 1991, author of Eve Was Framed and Just Law, Order of the Thistle 2024.
Helene N. White
Helene N. White, born 1954, is an American jurist serving as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 2008.
Hell-Cat Maggie
Hell-Cat Maggie, a legendary Five Points gang fighter with filed teeth and brass fingernails allied with the Dead Rabbits; described by Herbert Asbury in The Gangs of New York (1927) and now considered likely his fabrication.
Hellbanianz (gang)
Hellbanianz is an Albanian street gang based on the Gascoigne Estate in Barking, east London, the retail and enforcement arm of the Mafia Shqiptare cocaine networks, known for viral rap videos, Tristen Asllani's 2016 conviction, and a reported 2023 move to Dubai.
Hello Kitty murder case
The Hello Kitty murder case, also called the Hello Kitty藏屍案, was the 1999 Hong Kong torture killing of hostess Fan Man-yee, whose skull was found sewn inside a Hello Kitty doll; three men received life sentences for manslaughter.
Hells Angels MC criminal allegations and incidents
Hells Angels MC criminal allegations and incidents: prosecutions of the outlaw motorcycle club under RICO and VICAR, including the 2002 Laughlin melee, the 2013 South Carolina convictions, the Danish biker war, and the Mallorca trial.