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John A. Woodcock, Jr.
John A. Woodcock, Jr. (born 1950) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Maine, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2003.
John Abbott
Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott (1821–1893), Canadian lawyer and Conservative politician, third Prime Minister of Canada 1891–1892, first Canadian-born PM and first to govern from the Senate, McGill law dean and CPR counsel.
John Albert Gardner
John Albert Gardner III is a California murderer and registered sex offender who pleaded guilty in 2010 to raping and killing Amber Dubois and Chelsea King after serving five years for child molestation; his case prompted Chelsea's Law.
John Alite
John Alite, former Gambino crime family enforcer nicknamed "the Calculator," cooperating witness against John Gotti Jr. at the 2009 deadlocked trial, later Englishtown, New Jersey councilman arrested in 2026 on extortion and loansharking charges.
John Allen Muhammad
John Allen Muhammad, born John Allen Williams, was a Gulf War veteran who with Lee Boyd Malvo carried out the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, killing ten; convicted in Virginia and Maryland, executed in 2009.
John and Lorena Bobbitt
John and Lorena Bobbitt: married couple at the center of the 1993 Manassas, Virginia case in which Lorena severed John's penis; he was acquitted of marital sexual assault, she of malicious wounding by insanity.
John Antoon II
John Antoon II (born 1946) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Middle District of Florida since 2013.
John Archibald Campbell
John Archibald Campbell (1811–1889), U.S. Supreme Court associate justice 1853–1861 from Alabama, concurred in Dred Scott, resigned to become Confederate assistant secretary of war, and later argued the Slaughterhouse Cases.
John Austin (legal philosopher)
John Austin (1790–1859), English jurist and first professor of jurisprudence at University of London, author of The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832), founder of analytical jurisprudence and the command theory of legal positivism, later famously criticized by H.L.A. Hart.
John B. Nalbandian
John B. Nalbandian, born John Baylor Nalbandian in 1969, is an American jurist serving as a judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2018, appointed by President Trump.
John B. Owens
John B. Owens, also known as John Byron Owens, is an American jurist serving as a Ninth Circuit federal appeals judge since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
John B. Weller
John B. Weller (1812–1875) was an American Jacksonian Democrat from Ohio who served in the House, as US senator and Governor of California, and as Minister to Mexico.
John Bassett Moore
John Bassett Moore (1860–1947) was an American international law scholar, a Columbia professor for over three decades, and a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice from 1921 to 1928.
John Battaglia
John David Battaglia (1955-2018), Dallas man executed by Texas on February 1, 2018 for the May 2001 shooting deaths of his daughters Mary Faith, 9, and Liberty, 6; case centered on competency-to-be-executed litigation.
John Beckett, Lord Beckett
John Beckett, Lord Beckett is a Scottish judge, Lord Justice Clerk since 4 February 2025, formerly Solicitor General for Scotland (2006), Senator of the College of Justice (2016), and Inner House judge (2023).
John Bennett Ramsey
John Bennett Ramsey, American computer executive and father of JonBenét Ramsey, found her body in their Boulder home in 1996, was a main investigation target, then exonerated by DNA in 2008.
John Bessler
John D. Bessler is an American law professor at the University of Baltimore and Georgetown, author of 12 books on the death penalty, Eighth Amendment, and Beccaria, arguing executions are torture under international law.
John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan
Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (Lord Lucan, Lucky Lucan), British aristocrat and gambler who vanished in 1974 after nanny Sandra Rivett's murder; named killer at the 1975 inquest, declared dead 1999, death certificate 2016, body never found.
John Bittrolff
John Bittrolff, Manorville carpenter convicted 2017 of the 1993-1994 murders of Rita Tangredi and Colleen McNamee, identified via familial DNA; appeals cite new DNA excluding him at the McNamee scene.
John Bodkin Adams
John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983), Eastbourne general practitioner, tried and acquitted of murder at the 1957 Old Bailey trial over elderly patients' deaths; case established the double effect doctrine in English law.
John Bradshaw (judge)
John Bradshaw (1602-1659), English lawyer and judge, president of the High Court of Justice that tried and sentenced Charles I; first president of the Council of State, later an opponent of Cromwell; posthumously attainted and hanged in effigy at Tyburn.
John C. Coughenour
John C. Coughenour, born 1941, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Washington since 2006.
John C. Hinderaker
John Charles Hinderaker, born 1968, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Arizona since 2020, appointed by President Trump.
John C. P. Goldberg
John C. P. Goldberg, American legal scholar, Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; with Benjamin Zipursky co-developed civil recourse theory and co-authored Recognizing Wrongs (2020), a leading account of tort law as wrongs and redress.
John C. Porfilio
John C. Porfilio, born 1934, is an inactive senior judge of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by Reagan; he earlier served as a Colorado district judge.
John C. Wallace
John C. Wallace, born 1928, is an American judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the longest-serving federal circuit judge in US history.
John C. Woods
John Clarence Woods (1911-1950) was the US Army master sergeant from Wichita, Kansas, who hanged ten Nazi leaders at Nuremberg on October 16, 1946, and seven Japanese war criminals in Tokyo in 1948; his claimed 347-execution career and the botched short-drop hangings remain disputed.
John Cannan
John David Guise Cannan (1954–2024), British murderer and rapist jailed in 1989 for killing Shirley Banks; officially named by Scotland Yard in 2002 as the only prime suspect in the 1986 Suzy Lamplugh disappearance, never charged, died at HMP Full Sutton.
John Christie (serial killer)
John Reginald Halliday Christie, English serial killer of at least six women at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, 1943–1953; his testimony helped hang Timothy Evans, later pardoned.
John Church Hamilton
John Church Hamilton (1792–1882), fourth son of Alexander Hamilton, was an American historian who edited his father's seven-volume Works and wrote the seven-volume Life of Alexander Hamilton.