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John Henry Carpenter
John Henry Carpenter, American video-equipment salesman, friend of Bob Crane, tried and acquitted in 1994 for Crane's 1978 Scottsdale murder; case remains unsolved; died 1998.
John Henry Wigmore
John Henry Wigmore (1863–1943) was an American legal scholar whose Treatise on Evidence, first published 1904–05, is regarded as one of the world's great books on law.
John Hinckley Jr.
John Hinckley Jr., Oklahoma-born, attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton in 1981, to impress Jodie Foster; found not guilty by reason of insanity, confined at St. Elizabeths, fully freed 2022.
John Howard
John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939), Australia's 25th Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader, served 1996–2007, won four consecutive elections, delivered the GST, gun law reform, and Telstra sale, backed the Iraq war, and lost Bennelong in 2007.
John Ibrahim
John Houssam Ibrahim is a Sydney nightclub owner who has run Kings Cross venues since the late 1980s.
John J. Barry
John J. Barry (John Joseph Barry) was an American trial lawyer, a former federal prosecutor in New Jersey whose clients included Donald Trump and Crazy Eddie Antar.
John J. McConnell, Jr.
John J. McConnell, Jr. is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Rhode Island since 2011, appointed by Barack Obama and chief judge since 2019.
John J. Parker
John J. Parker (John Johnston Parker, 1885-1958), North Carolina Republican and Fourth Circuit chief judge; Hoover's 1930 Supreme Court nominee, the first rejected in the twentieth century, 39-41 on May 7, 1930; later Nuremberg tribunal alternate judge.
John J. Tharp, Jr.
John J. Tharp, Jr., also known as John Joseph Tharp, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Illinois since 2012.
John J. Tuchi
John J. Tuchi, also known as John Joseph Tuchi, is a United States district judge for the District of Arizona, appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed in 2014.
John Jay
John Jay (1745-1829) was an American Founding Father from New York, first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court (1789-1795), Federalist co-author, Treaty of Paris and Jay Treaty negotiator, and two-term New York governor.
John Joubert (serial killer)
John Joubert (1963-1996), American serial killer who murdered three boys in Maine and Nebraska, 1982-1984; identified via FBI profiling and a license-plate tip; executed in Nebraska's electric chair in 1996.
John K. Bush
John K. Bush, born 1964, is an American jurist serving as a judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2017, appointed by President Donald Trump.
John Kirby (attorney)
John Kirby (attorney), full name John Joseph Kirby Jr. (1939-2019), American lawyer who won Nintendo's Donkey Kong case against Universal in 1984, namesake of Nintendo's Kirby character, and DOJ civil rights worker under John Doar.
John L. Badalamenti
John Leonard Badalamenti is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Florida since 2020, appointed by President Donald Trump.
John L. Kane, Jr.
John L. Kane, Jr. (born 1937) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in Colorado since 1988, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1977.
John L. Sinatra, Jr.
John L. Sinatra, Jr., also known as John Leonard Sinatra, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Buffalo since 2019.
John Leonard Orr
John Leonard Orr, known as the Pillow Pyro, is an American serial arsonist and former Glendale fire captain who set nearly 2,000 fires in the 1980s and early 1990s.
John List (murderer)
John Emil List was an American mass murderer who shot his wife, mother, and children in Westfield, New Jersey, in 2001. He evaded authorities for 18 years.
John M. Dowd
John M. Dowd (born 1941) is an American white-collar defense lawyer and independent investigator, author of the 225-page 1989 Dowd Report that led to Pete Rose's lifetime baseball ban, and a Trump lawyer in the Mueller investigation.
John M. Gallagher
John M. Gallagher, also known as John Michael Gallagher, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2019.
John M. Gerrard
John M. Gerrard, born 1953, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Nebraska, appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed in 2012.
John M. Rogers
John M. Rogers, born 1948 in Rochester, New York, is a US Court of Appeals judge for the Sixth Circuit, appointed by George W. Bush in 2002.
John M. Seabright
John M. Seabright (born 1959) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Hawaii, appointed by George W. Bush in 2005.
John M. Sternhagen
John M. Sternhagen was a federal tax judge who joined the Board of Tax Appeals in its first year, 1924, and served until his term expired in 1946.
John M. Walker, Jr.
John M. Walker, Jr., also known as John Mercer Walker, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the Second Circuit since 2006.
John M. Younge
John M. Younge, also known as John Milton Younge, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Pennsylvania since 2019, appointed by President Donald Trump.
John Marshall
John Marshall (1755–1835), fourth and longest-serving US Chief Justice (1801–1835), established judicial review in Marbury v. Madison and led landmark federalism cases, while also owning hundreds of enslaved people and writing proslavery opinions.
John Marshall Harlan
John Marshall Harlan (1833–1911), Kentucky lawyer, Union colonel, and Supreme Court associate justice 1877–1911; the "Great Dissenter" whose lone Plessy v. Ferguson dissent declared the Constitution color-blind and whose grandson Harlan II also served on the Court.
John Marshall Harlan II
John Marshall Harlan II (1899–1971), also known as Harlan II, grandson of Justice John Marshall Harlan I, was a US Supreme Court associate justice 1955–1971, appointed by Eisenhower; known for judicial restraint, First Amendment doctrine, and the Katz reasonable-expectation-of-privacy test.