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Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003
The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (2003 asp 13) is Scotland's main mental health statute, covering mental illness, personality disorder and learning disability, compulsory treatment orders, the Mental Health Tribunal, and named persons, amended by the 2015 Act and a 2026 remedial order.
Mental Health Review Tribunal (England and Wales)
Mental Health Review Tribunal (England and Wales), now the First-tier Tribunal (Mental Health) in England and the MHRTW in Wales, reviews Mental Health Act 1983 detentions and can order discharge.
Meredith A. Vacca
Meredith A. Vacca, born 1980 in Busan, South Korea, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of New York since 2024.
Merrick Garland
Merrick Brian Garland, American lawyer and judge, 86th U.S. Attorney General 2021-2025 under Biden; former D.C. Circuit chief judge whose 2016 Supreme Court nomination was blocked by the Senate.
Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination
Obama's March 16, 2016 Supreme Court nomination of D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Merrick Garland to replace Antonin Scalia; Senate Republicans under Mitch McConnell granted no hearing or vote, the nomination lapsed, and Neil Gorsuch later filled the seat.
Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago
Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago (MCC Chicago), a Federal Bureau of Prisons administrative-security jail at 71 West Van Buren Street, a 1975 Harry Weese triangular tower holding pretrial federal detainees for the Northern District of Illinois.
Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York
Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York (MCC New York), 150 Park Row federal jail opened 1975, held SDNY pretrial detainees including Gotti, Madoff, El Chapo; Epstein died there 2019; closed 2021.
Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn
MDC Brooklyn, the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, is the Federal Bureau of Prisons' administrative jail holding pretrial detainees for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, about 1,300 inmates, site of the 2019 week-long power outage and, since June 2025, an ICE detention facility.
Meusebach–Comanche Treaty
The Meusebach–Comanche Treaty, agreed March 1–2, 1847, on the lower San Saba River and signed at Fredericksburg on May 9, 1847, was a peace agreement between John O. Meusebach of the German Adelsverein and Comanche chiefs Buffalo Hump, Santa Anna, and others, opening over 3 million acres of the Fisher-Miller land grant to settlement.
Mexican Mafia
The Mexican Mafia is a loosely structured criminal organization that directs over 21,000 gang members. It controls allied Hispanic street gangs across the United States and Mexico.
Meyer Lansky
Meyer Lansky (Maier Suchowlansky), 1902-1983, American organized-crime financier and Syndicate accountant behind Las Vegas and Havana gambling; indicted 1970 and 1972, charges dropped; died nearly broke.
Mia R. Perez
Mia Roberts Perez, born 1981 in Philadelphia, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, appointed by President Biden in 2022.
Miami cannibal attack
The Miami cannibal attack (Miami Zombie, Causeway Cannibal) was Rudy Eugene's 2012 face-biting assault on Ronald Poppo on the MacArthur Causeway; toxicology found no bath salts, only marijuana.
Miami River Cops Scandal
Miami River Cops scandal: 1985 case in which Miami police officers stole cocaine from riverfront smugglers; three drownings exposed a ring of 19 charged officers, the largest MPD corruption investigation.
Miami Vice
Miami Vice: NBC crime drama (1984–1989) created by Anthony Yerkovich with executive producer Michael Mann, starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as undercover detectives Crockett and Tubbs, famous for pastels, MTV-style editing, and Jan Hammer's score.
Micaela Alvarez
Micaela Alvarez, born 1958, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of Texas, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2004.
Micah W. J. Smith
Micah W. J. Smith, also known as Micah William Janso Smith, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Hawaii since 2024.
Micah Xavier Johnson
Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, an Army Reserve Afghan War veteran from Mesquite, Texas, killed five officers at a July 7, 2016 Dallas protest and was killed by a police bomb robot, a first in US law enforcement.
Michael A. Chagares
Michael A. Chagares is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit since 2006, appointed by President George W. Bush.
Michael A. Hess
Michael A. Hess, also known as Anthony Lee and Michael Anthony Hess, is an American lawyer and Chief Counsel at the Republican National Committee in Washington, D.C.
Michael A. Ponsor
Michael A. Ponsor, born 1946, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Massachusetts, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994.
Michael A. Shipp
Michael Andre Shipp is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of New Jersey since 2012, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Michael Alig
Michael Alig was a New York nightclub promoter and leader of the 1990s Club Kids scene; he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 1996 killing of Angel Melendez, served 17 years, and died in 2020.
Michael Avenatti
Michael Avenatti, American lawyer famous as Stormy Daniels' attorney against Trump, later convicted of Nike extortion, wire fraud, and client theft; disbarred in California, imprisoned with scheduled release September 8, 2028.
Michael B. Brennan
Michael Brian Brennan, born in 1963 in Milwaukee, is a U.S. circuit judge on the Seventh Circuit since 2018, appointed by President Trump and serving as chief judge since 2025.
Michael Bear Carson and Suzan Carson
Michael Bear Carson (James Clifford Carson, born 1950) and Suzan Carson (Susan Barnes Carson) are the married "San Francisco Witch Killers," convicted of three 1981–1983 California murders of people they deemed witches, sentenced to 25-years-to-life terms, and repeatedly denied parole.
Michael Bruce Ross
Michael Bruce Ross (1959–2005) was an American serial killer convicted of raping and murdering four women in eastern Connecticut, executed in 2005 after waiving his appeals.
Michael C. Martin
Michael Craig Martin (born 1974) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Michigan since 2026, after 18 years as a federal prosecutor.
Michael Cohen (lawyer)
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's personal lawyer and fixer from 2006 to 2018, pleaded guilty in 2018 to tax evasion, bank fraud, and campaign finance violations over $130,000 hush money payments, was disbarred, testified against Trump, and reconciled with him in 2026.
Michael Corleone
Michael Corleone is the fictional protagonist of Mario Puzo's The Godfather novel and Coppola's film trilogy, portrayed by Al Pacino, tracing his rise from World War II Marine to ruthless Don of the Corleone crime family.