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Marc Dutroux

Marc Dutroux is a Belgian serial child raper, central to the Dutroux affair, who kidnapped six girls in 1995 and 1996. He was sentenced to life in 2004.

Marc Elias

Marc Erik Elias, American Democratic election lawyer, Duke Law 1993; Perkins Coie Political Law Group chair, then Elias Law Group founder and Democracy Docket creator; won 64 of 65 post-2020-election cases and four Supreme Court redistricting cases.

Marc Fogel

Marc Fogel, also known as Marc Hilliard Fogel, is an American history teacher arrested in Russia in 2021 for medically prescribed marijuana and freed in February 2025.

Marc Nadon

Marc Nadon, born 1949 in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, is a retired Federal Court of Appeal judge and maritime-law expert whose 2013 Supreme Court of Canada appointment was struck down by the 2014 Nadon Reference on Quebec-seat eligibility grounds.

Marc T. Treadwell

Marc T. Treadwell is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Georgia since 2010, appointed by President Barack Obama.

Marcel Petiot

Marcel Petiot, "Docteur Satan" (1897–1946), French physician and serial killer who ran a fake escape network under the Occupation, murdering and robbing people, mostly Jews, at 21 rue Le Sueur; tried in 1946 and guillotined.

Marcelo Costa de Andrade

Marcelo Costa de Andrade, known as the Vampire of Niterói, is a Brazilian serial killer who confessed in 1991 to killing 13 children near Niterói, Rio de Janeiro.

Marcia A. Crone

Marcia A. Crone (born 1952) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Texas since 2003, appointed by President George W. Bush and sitting in Beaumont.

Marcia Clark

Marcia Clark (born 1953) is an American former prosecutor, lead prosecutor in the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial, later author of Without a Doubt and crime novels, and a TV legal commentator.

Marcia M. Howard

Marcia M. Howard, also known as Marcia Morales Howard, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Florida since 2007.

Marcia S. Krieger

Marcia S. Krieger, born 1954 in Denver, is an American jurist who served as chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado from 2013 to 2019.

Marcin Matczak

Marcin Matczak is a Polish professor of legal science at the University of Warsaw and practicing legal counsel, a prominent commentator on Poland's 2015–2023 rule-of-law crisis.

Marcinho VP

Marcinho VP is the alias of Márcio dos Santos Nepomuceno, ex-commander of Complexo do Alemão trafficking and alleged Comando Vermelho chief; imprisoned since 1996, alive in 2026, distinct from homonym Márcio Amaro de Oliveira.

Marco A. Hernandez

Marco Antonio Hernandez, born 1957, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Oregon, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2011.

Marcus Wesson

Marcus Delon Wesson (born 1946), American death-row inmate convicted in 2005 of nine counts of first-degree murder for the March 12, 2004 deaths of nine of his children in Fresno, California, plus 14 sex-crime counts; appeal pending.

Margaret C. Rodgers

Margaret C. Rodgers, born 1964, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Florida since 2003, appointed by President George W. Bush.

Margaret I. Strickland

Margaret I. Strickland, born 1980 in Denton, Texas, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in New Mexico since 2021, appointed by President Biden.

Margaret M. Garnett

Margaret M. Garnett is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of New York since 2024, appointed by President Biden.

Margaret R. Guzman

Margaret Rose Guzman, born 1960, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Massachusetts since 2023, formerly first justice of the Ayer District Court.

Margarine Reference

Margarine Reference, formally Reference re Validity of Section 5(a) Dairy Industry Act ([1949] SCR 1), a 1948 Supreme Court of Canada decision invalidating the federal margarine manufacture and sale ban while upholding import restrictions, and establishing the prohibition-penalty-purpose test for the federal criminal law power.

Margo K. Brodie

Margo K. Brodie, born Margo Kitsy Brodie, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the Eastern District of New York since 2012.

Mari Gilbert

Mari Gilbert (1964–2016), American victims' advocate from Ellenville, New York, whose search for missing daughter Shannan exposed the Gilgo Beach serial killings; killed by her daughter Sarra in 2016; portrayed by Amy Ryan in Netflix's Lost Girls.

Maria A. Kahn

Maria Araujo Kahn, born 1964 in Benguela, Angola, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Second Circuit since 2023.

Maria A. Lanahan

Maria Ann Lanahan, born 1987, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in the Eastern District of Missouri since 2025, after serving as Missouri's deputy solicitor general.

María d. R. Antongiorgi-Jordán

María del R. Antongiorgi-Jordán, born in 1967 in San Germán, Puerto Rico, is a United States district judge for the District of Puerto Rico, appointed by President Biden in 2022.

Maria Lourdes Sereno

Maria Lourdes Sereno (Maria Lourdes Punzalan Aranal-Sereno) was the 24th Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court, its first woman head, removed by quo warranto in 2018.

Marianne Bachmeier

Marianne Bachmeier (1950–1996), West German woman who on 6 March 1981 shot dead Klaus Grabowski, on trial for murdering her 7-year-old daughter Anna, in a Lübeck courtroom; convicted of manslaughter, six years, released after three.

Marilyn J. Horan

Marilyn J. Horan, born in 1954 in Butler, Pennsylvania, is a United States district judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2018.

Marilyn L. Huff

Marilyn L. Huff is an American jurist serving as a senior US district judge for the Southern District of California, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1991.

Marilyn Mosby

Marilyn Mosby, two-term Baltimore State's Attorney (2015–2023), charged officers in Freddie Gray's death, lost 2022 re-election, and was convicted of perjury and mortgage fraud; the Fourth Circuit vacated the fraud conviction in 2025.