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Louis L. Stanton
Louis Lee Stanton, born 1927, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge of the Southern District of New York since 1985, appointed by President Ronald Reagan.
Louis Le Fur
Louis Le Fur (1870–1943) was a French jurist and professor of public and international law at Caen, Strasbourg, Rennes, and Paris, known for his Catholic natural-law philosophy of international law.
Louis Renault (jurist)
Louis Renault (1843–1918) was a French jurist and professor of international law at the University of Paris who shared the 1907 Nobel Peace Prize for his arbitration work.
Louise Arbour
Louise Arbour (born 1947) is a Canadian jurist, former Supreme Court of Canada justice, ICTY/ICTR chief prosecutor who indicted Slobodan Milosevic, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 2004–2008, and Canada's 31st Governor General since June 2026.
Louise W. Flanagan
Louise W. Flanagan is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina since 2003, appointed by George W. Bush.
Louise Woodward case
The Louise Woodward case was a 1997 Massachusetts trial involving a British au pair. The Supreme Judicial Court upheld the reduction of the murder conviction to involuntary manslaughter in 1998.
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) is the largest US maximum-security prison, an 18,000-acre former slave plantation opened in 1901 on a Mississippi River bend, known for convict leasing history, farm labor litigation, and its ICE detention contract.
Louisiana v. Callais
Louisiana v. Callais (also Callais v. Landry, Robinson v. Callais), 608 U.S. _ (2026): Supreme Court ruling holding Louisiana's SB8 map with two majority-Black districts an unconstitutional racial gerrymander and narrowing VRA Section 2 to intentional discrimination.
Loujain al-Hathloul (لجين الهذلول)
Loujain al-Hathloul (لجين الهذلول), born 1989 in Jeddah, is a Saudi women's rights activist who led the Women to Drive campaign and the movement to end male guardianship; detained in 2018, sentenced by a terrorism court in 2020, released in 2021 after 1,001 days, and still under a travel ban.
Loung Ung (អ៊ឹង លឿង)
Loung Ung (អ៊ឹង លឿង), born 1970 in Phnom Penh, is a Cambodian American author and activist, survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide, author of the memoir First They Killed My Father, landmine campaign spokesperson, and co-writer of the 2017 Netflix film.
Lourdes Gómez
Lourdes Gómez, full name Lourdes Lynnette Gómez Torres, is an American attorney and politician serving as Attorney General of Puerto Rico, named to the post by Governor Jenniffer González Colón in 2025.
Love Canal
Love Canal is a Niagara Falls, New York neighborhood built over a chemical waste landfill whose contamination led to hundreds of evacuations and the 1980 Superfund law.
Loving v. Virginia
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), the unanimous Supreme Court decision by Chief Justice Warren striking down Virginia's Racial Integrity Act and all state bans on interracial marriage under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses.
Loyd Jowers trial
The Loyd Jowers trial, King v. Jowers (1999), was a Memphis wrongful-death civil suit in which a jury found Jowers and "others, including government agencies" conspired to kill Martin Luther King Jr.; the Justice Department later deemed Jowers's claims fabricated.
Luca Brasi
Luca Brasi is a fictional enforcer in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather and the 1972 film, played by wrestler Lenny Montana. Don Corleone's most loyal hitman, he is garroted by Sollozzo and Bruno Tattaglia while spying, inspiring "sleeps with the fishes."
Lucchese crime family
Lucchese crime family, one of New York's Five Families of La Cosa Nostra, originally the Gagliano family; led by Tommy Lucchese from 1951, later Anthony Corallo; known for garment district, union, and airport rackets and ongoing RICO prosecutions.
Lucy H. Koh
Lucy H. Koh, born 1968, is an American judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2021, previously a federal district judge in California.
Lucy Letby
Lucy Letby is a British former neonatal nurse serving 15 whole-life orders after being convicted of murdering seven babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016.
Lueders Park Piru
Lueders Park Piru (LPP), also Lueders Park Hustlers, a Bloods-affiliated Piru street gang on the East Side of Compton, California, founded early 1970s, named for Lueders Park at 1500 E. Rosecrans Avenue.
Lufthansa heist
Lufthansa heist: December 11, 1978 armed robbery of Lufthansa's JFK cargo terminal, stealing about $5 million cash and $875,000 in jewelry, the largest US cash robbery at the time, linked to Jimmy Burke and depicted in Goodfellas.
Luigi Mangione
Luigi Nicholas Mangione, Maryland-born University of Pennsylvania graduate, pleaded guilty 2026 to federal stalking charges in the December 4, 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan; his New York state murder trial is postponed pending a double jeopardy motion.
Luis Echeverría
Luis Echeverría Álvarez (1922–2022), Mexican president 1970–1976 of the PRI and former interior secretary; presided over the dirty war, the 1971 Corpus Christi massacre, and the 1976 peso crisis; charged with genocide but never convicted.
Luis F. Restrepo
Luis F. Restrepo, also known as Luis Felipe Restrepo, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Third Circuit since 2016.
Luis Garavito
Luis Alfredo Garavito, "La Bestia" (1957–2023), Colombian serial killer who confessed to more than 190 child murders across 11 departments plus Ecuador; sentenced in 2000 to Colombia's 40-year maximum; parole denied 2021; died in Valledupar prison custody October 2023.
Luis Moreno Ocampo
Luis Moreno Ocampo, Argentine lawyer, first Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (2003-2012) and deputy prosecutor in Argentina's 1985 Juntas Trial; later author of Guerra o Justicia.
Lululemon murder
The Lululemon murder: Brittany Norwood killed co-worker Jayna Murray (331 injuries) at a Bethesda, Maryland Lululemon store on March 11, 2011, staged a fake masked robbery, and received life without parole.
LulzSec
LulzSec (Lulz Security) was a black-hat hacking group formed in 2011 inside Anonymous chatrooms; its 50-day spree hit Sony, PBS, and Fox before FBI informant Sabu (Hector Monsegur) helped dismantle it.
Luo Xiang
Luo Xiang (罗翔, born 1977) is a Chinese criminal-law professor at the China University of Political Science and Law who became a top Bilibili legal educator.
Lust murder
Lust murder (Lustmord; erotophonophilia) is a subcategory of sexual homicide in which sadistic killing itself produces sexual gratification, distinguished by mutilation, FBI offender typologies, and Krafft-Ebing's 1886 origins.
Lustration
Lustration, from the Latin for purification, is the administrative screening and removal of officials tied to a former authoritarian regime, first codified by Czechoslovakia in 1991.