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Hells Angels MC criminal allegations and incidents in British Columbia
Hells Angels MC in British Columbia: entered 1983 via the Satan's Angels patch-over; Operation E-Pandora convictions, R. v. Punko (2012 SCC 39), and the 2023 forfeiture of the Nanaimo, East Vancouver, and Kelowna clubhouses.
Hélmer Herrera
Hélmer 'Pacho' Herrera (Hélmer Francisco Herrera Buitrago, 1951–1998), Colombian trafficker, charter member and New York operations chief of the Cali Cartel; surrendered 1996, killed in Palmira prison, estate seized 2021.
Helsinki Accords
Helsinki Accords (Helsinki Final Act, 1 August 1975): politically binding, non-treaty agreement of the CSCE signed by 35 states (all European countries except Albania, plus the US and Canada), with ten Decalogue principles and baskets on security, economics, and human rights.
Helter Skelter (book)
Helter Skelter (1974, Norton) by prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry is the best-selling true crime account of the Manson murders and trial, Edgar winner, its race-war motive later challenged by O'Neill's Chaos.
Hema Committee report
Hema Committee report: 2019 Kerala government panel report on women's issues in Malayalam cinema, chaired by Justice K Hema; withheld five years, released redacted August 19, 2024, finding rampant sexual harassment and a controlling male power group.
Hemp loophole
Hemp loophole: US legal gap from the 2018 Farm Bill defining hemp by delta-9 THC only, allowing intoxicating delta-8, THCA, and converted cannabinoids; closed by P.L. 119-37 (2025), effective December 2026.
Henri Désiré Landru
Henri Désiré Landru, the Bluebeard of Gambais (1869–1922), French fraudster and multiple murderer who killed ten women and a boy met through matrimonial ads; convicted 1921, guillotined 1922, bodies never found.
Henri Rolin
Henri Rolin (1891–1973) was a Belgian jurist, socialist senator, and professor of international law who served as a judge of the European Court of Human Rights.
Henri Young
Henri Young (Henri Theodore Young), Alcatraz inmate 244-AZ, a bank robber convicted in 1941 of involuntary manslaughter for stabbing fellow inmate Rufus McCain after a failed 1939 escape; basis for the largely fictional film Murder in the First.
Henry Clay
Henry Clay (1777-1852), Kentucky lawyer-statesman, Speaker of the House, Secretary of State, and Whig founder; the 'Great Compromiser' behind the Missouri Compromise, 1833 tariff, and Compromise of 1850, who ran for president three times and never won.
Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn
Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn (1779–1854), Scottish advocate, Solicitor General for Scotland 1830–34, Court of Session judge, diarist of Memorials of his Time, and Edinburgh conservationist.
Henry de Bracton
Henry de Bracton (Henry of Bratton, d. 1268), English royal judge and clergyman associated with De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae, the medieval treatise on English law composed by Pattishall, Raleigh, and Bratton, printed 1569.
Henry E. Autrey
Henry Edward Autrey, born 1952 in Mobile, Alabama, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the Eastern District of Missouri since 2002.
Henry E. Hudson
Henry E. Hudson, born 1947, is an American jurist serving as a senior US district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia since 2018, appointed by George W. Bush in 2002.
Henry Eugene Hodges
Henry Eugene Hodges (born 1966) is a Tennessee death row inmate convicted of the 1990 strangling of Ronald Bassett in Nashville; his case is known for death-row self-harm, a civil rights lawsuit, and the severe mental illness execution debate.
Henry F. Floyd
Henry F. Floyd, born 1947, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States circuit judge of the Fourth Circuit since 2021, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Henry Fielding Dickens
Sir Henry Fielding Dickens (1849-1933), English barrister and judge, eighth child of Charles Dickens; Trinity Hall Cambridge, KC 1892, Common Serjeant of London 1917-32, defender of Kitty Byron, author of Memories of My Father.
Henry Garnet
Henry Garnet (1555–1606), Jesuit superior of the English mission, executed for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot after learning of it in confession; author of the Treatise of Equivocation, alluded to in Macbeth.
Henry H. Kennedy, Jr.
Henry H. Kennedy, Jr., also known as Henry Harold Kennedy, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia since 2011.
Henry Hill
Henry Hill (1943–2012), Lucchese crime family associate and FBI informant whose life inspired Wiseguy and Goodfellas; testified in about 50 mob convictions, later lived publicly.
Henry L. Adams, Jr.
Henry Lee Adams, Jr., born 1945 in Jacksonville, Florida, is a senior United States district judge for the Middle District of Florida, appointed by President Clinton in 1993.
Henry Lee (李昌钰) (forensic scientist)
Henry C. Lee (李昌鈺, 1938–2026), Chinese-American forensic scientist, Connecticut chief criminalist 1978–2000, founder of the Henry C. Lee Institute; famous for the wood-chipper case, O.J. Simpson trial, and the 2023 fabrication ruling and settlement.
Henry Lee Lucas
Henry Lee Lucas (1936-2001), the "Confession Killer," was an American murderer who falsely confessed to about 600 murders in the 1980s; only three victims are confirmed, and a 1986 Texas attorney general report called his 360-plus confessions a fraud.
Henry Lee Moore
Henry Lee Moore: American suspected serial killer (1911–1912), convicted in Missouri in 1913 of ax-murdering his mother and grandmother; investigated for the 1912 Villisca axe murders and a series of linked Midwestern ax killings.
Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy
The Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy: the July 16, 2009 disorderly conduct arrest of the Harvard scholar at his Cambridge home by Sgt. James Crowley, Obama's "acted stupidly" remark, the beer summit, and the Cambridge Review Committee report.
Henry Louis Wallace
Henry Louis Wallace, the Taco Bell Strangler, is an American serial killer who raped and murdered 11 Black women in Charlotte, NC and Barnwell, SC, 1990-1994; convicted 1997, nine death sentences, on death row in Raleigh.
Henry M. Herlong, Jr.
Henry M. Herlong, Jr., also known as Henry Michael Herlong, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in South Carolina.
Henry T. Wingate
Henry T. Wingate, born 1947, is a United States district judge in Mississippi since 1985, appointed by Ronald Reagan and the first African American on Mississippi's federal bench.
Henry Wade
Henry Menasco Wade (1914-2001), Dallas County district attorney 1950-1986, prosecuted Jack Ruby in 1964 and was the named defendant in Roe v. Wade (1973).
Henry Wheaton
Henry Wheaton (1785–1848), American jurist and diplomat: third and first official Supreme Court Reporter (1816–1827), twelve volumes of Reports, lost Wheaton v. Peters (1834), Minister to Prussia, author of Elements of International Law (1836).