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Kobe Bryant sexual assault case
The Kobe Bryant sexual assault case: 2003 Colorado felony charge under CRS 18-3-402 after a 19-year-old hotel worker's complaint; charges dropped September 1, 2004; civil suit settled.
Kobe child murders
The Kobe child murders (Kōbe renzoku jidō sasshō jiken) were 1997 attacks in Kobe, Japan, in which a 14-year-old killed two children, prompting reform of Japan's Juvenile Law.
Konstantinos Fotopoulos (Κωνσταντίνος Φωτόπουλος)
Konstantinos Fotopoulos (Κωνσταντίνος Φωτόπουλος), known as Kosta, is a Greek-born American sentenced to death in Florida in 1990 for orchestrating two 1989 murders with his lover Deidre Hunt.
Koodathayi cyanide killings
Koodathayi cyanide killings (Koodathai serial killings, Jolly Joseph case): six deaths in one Kerala family, 2002-2016, allegedly by cyanide poisoning; prime accused Jollyamma Joseph arrested 2019, trial ongoing in Kozhikode.
Korea's treaties with European powers, 1883–1886
Between 1883 and 1886 Korea concluded treaties with four European powers: Britain and Germany in 1883, Russia in 1884, and France in 1886, all unequal treaties.
Korematsu v. United States
Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), was a 6-3 Supreme Court decision upholding the wartime exclusion of Japanese Americans, later vacated by coram nobis in 1983 and repudiated in Trump v. Hawaii (2018).
Koseki (戸籍)
Koseki (戸籍), Japan's family register: a household-based public record certifying Japanese nationality and kinship from birth to death, administered by municipalities, with 1871 origins, 2008 access restrictions, and 2025 furigana recording.
Kosovo Specialist Chambers
The Kosovo Specialist Chambers is a hybrid court, funded by the European Union and seated in The Hague, prosecuting crimes committed in Kosovo between 1998 and 2000.
Kray twins
The Kray twins, Ronald and Reginald, were identical brothers from London's East End who ran a notorious crime empire until their arrests in 1968 and murder convictions in 1969.
Krill fishery
Krill (Euphausia superba) is a central prey of the Southern Ocean food web, commercially harvested by CCAMLR for aquaculture feed. High 2020s catches led to an early closure.
Kris Kobach
Kris William Kobach is an American lawyer and Republican politician who has served as Kansas's 45th attorney general since his election in November 2022, after two terms as the state's secretary of state.
Kris Mayes
Kris Mayes is an American attorney and Democrat who has served as Arizona's attorney general since 2023, after serving on the Arizona Corporation Commission from 2003 to 2010.
Krissa M. Lanham
Krissa M. Lanham is a United States district judge for the District of Arizona since 2024, appointed by President Biden after fifteen years as a federal prosecutor.
Kristen Gilbert
Kristen Gilbert, American former VA nurse at Northampton, Massachusetts; convicted 2001 of murdering four veterans with epinephrine injections; death-penalty jury deadlocked, life sentence.
Kristi DuBose
Kristi DuBose (born 1964) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Alabama since 2005, appointed by George W. Bush.
Kristi H. Johnson
Kristi Haskins Johnson, born 1980 in Oxford, Mississippi, is a US district judge for the Southern District of Mississippi since 2020, formerly Mississippi's first Solicitor General.
Kristine G. Baker
Kristine Gerhard Baker, born 1971, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas since 2012 and its chief judge since 2023.
Krum (Крум)
Krum (Крум), khan of the Bulgars 803-814, rose via Pannonia and the Avar collapse, crushed Emperor Nikephoros I in 811, defeated Michael I in 813, besieged Constantinople, and died 13 April 814, succeeded by Omurtag.
Kuge hō
Kuge hō (公家法, court noble law) is the medieval Japanese legal order governing the imperial court and nobility, alongside estate law and warrior law, and formed from the ritsuryō codes.
Kurdish mafia
Kurdish mafia: an umbrella label, not one organization, for Kurdish-background heroin networks in Europe, KRI-based people smuggling to the UK, PKK European fundraising (over EUR 30 million yearly), and mafia-style repression in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Kuril Islands dispute
Kuril Islands dispute (Northern Territories, 北方四島): Russia-Japan conflict over Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan, and Habomai, Soviet-seized in 1945; no WWII peace treaty signed; negotiations broken off in 2022.
Kurt D. Engelhardt
Kurt D. Engelhardt is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Fifth Circuit since 2018, appointed by President Donald J. Trump.
Kusumah Atmaja
Kusumah Atmaja (Raden Soelaiman Effendi Koesoemah Atmadja, 1898–1952), Indonesian jurist and first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (Mahkamah Agung), appointed by Soekarno 19 August 1945; defended judicial independence in the 1946 Sudarsono case; National Hero.
Kwame Raoul
Kwame Raoul, born in Chicago in 1964, is an American Democrat serving as Illinois's 42nd Attorney General, first elected in 2018 after 14 years in the Illinois State Senate.
Kyle C. Dudek
Kyle Christopher Dudek, born 1985, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Florida since 2025, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Kyle Diamantas
Kyle Diamantas, American attorney, Acting FDA Commissioner from May 2026 after Makary's resignation; formerly FDA Deputy Commissioner for Food, Jones Day partner, University of Florida law graduate.
Kyle Rittenhouse
Kyle Rittenhouse, an American from Antioch, Illinois, shot three men in Kenosha, Wisconsin on August 25, 2020, killing two, and was acquitted of all charges in November 2021 on self-defense grounds, with civil suits later proceeding.
Kymberly K. Evanson
Kymberly Kathryn Evanson, born 1977 in Longview, Washington, is a United States district judge for the Western District of Washington, appointed by President Biden and seated in Seattle since 2023.
Kyoto Animation arson attack (京都アニメーション放火殺人事件)
The Kyoto Animation arson attack (京都アニメーション放火殺人事件) was a 2019 gasoline arson at the studio's No. 1 building in Kyoto's Fushimi Ward that killed 36 people; perpetrator Shinji Aoba received a finalized death sentence in 2025.
L-1 visa
The L-1 visa is a US nonimmigrant visa for intracompany transferees, split into L-1A (managers, executives, 7 years) and L-1B (specialized knowledge, 5 years), created in 1970, with no annual cap and dual intent.