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Michael Peterson trial
The Michael Peterson trial (State v. Peterson) was the 2003 Durham, North Carolina first-degree murder prosecution of novelist Michael Peterson for the 2001 staircase death of his wife Kathleen; the conviction was vacated over SBI analyst Duane Deaver's misrepresentations and ended in a 2017 Alford plea.
Michael R. Barrett
Michael R. Barrett, also known as Michael Ryan Barrett, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio since 2019.
Michael R. Murphy
Michael R. Murphy, born 1947 in Denver, is a senior US circuit judge of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President Clinton in 1995.
Michael Riconosciuto
Michael Riconosciuto, American programmer and convicted methamphetamine manufacturer, claimed he installed a backdoor in stolen PROMIS software via the Wackenhut-Cabazon venture; central source for Danny Casolaro's Octopus, dismissed by the Bua report, released from prison in 2017.
Michael S. Nachmanoff
Michael S. Nachmanoff is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia since 2021, appointed by President Biden.
Michael S. Selig
Michael S. Selig, of Florida, is the 16th Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, sworn in December 22, 2025 after Senate confirmation; formerly SEC Crypto Task Force chief counsel and a derivatives regulatory partner, distinct from the UIUC aerospace professor Michael Selig.
Michael Stolleis
Michael Stolleis (1941–2021) was a German legal historian and professor of public law in Frankfurt, known for his four-volume History of Public Law in Germany.
Michael Stone (criminal)
Michael Stone is an English man serving three life sentences for the 1996 hammer murders of Lin and Megan Russell near Chillenden, Kent, convictions he has always contested.
Michael Swango
Michael Swango, American former physician and serial killer nicknamed Dr Poison and Double-O Swango, convicted of four poisonings and suspected of up to 60, serving life at ADX Florence.
Michael T. Liburdi
Michael T. Liburdi (Michael Thomas Liburdi) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Arizona since 2019, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Michael Tuchin
Michael Lloyd Tuchin is a Los Angeles bankruptcy and restructuring lawyer, founding member of KTBS Law LLP, Chambers Band 1 in California, known for MGM, Frederick's of Hollywood, and USA Gymnastics representations.
Michael Usan
Michael A. Usan is a circuit judge in Florida's Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County, Group 42, elected 2012 and unopposed in 2018, presiding over circuit criminal divisions including the XXXTentacion murder trial.
Michael W. Fitzgerald
Michael W. Fitzgerald, also known as Michael Walter Fitzgerald, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Central District of California since 2012.
Michael W. Mosman
Michael W. Mosman, born 1956 in Eugene, Oregon, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Oregon, appointed by George W. Bush in 2003.
Michael Wildes
Michael Jay Wildes (born 1964) is an American immigration lawyer, managing partner of Wildes & Weinberg P.C. (founded by his father Leon in 1960), former EDNY federal prosecutor, author of Safe Haven in America, and fourth-term Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey.
Michael Y. Scudder, Jr.
Michael Yale Scudder, Jr. (born 1971) is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals since 2018.
Michaelia Cash
Michaelia Cash (born 1970, Subiaco) is a Liberal Senator for Western Australia since 2007, a former Employment Minister and Attorney-General (2021–2022), and current Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and Shadow Attorney-General.
Michel Fourniret
Michel Fourniret, the 'Ogre of the Ardennes' (l'Ogre des Ardennes), French serial killer (1942–2021) who with wife Monique Olivier kidnapped, raped and murdered girls in France and Belgium 1987–2003; life sentences in 2008 and 2018.
Michel Temer
Michel Temer, born Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia, is a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as president of Brazil from 2016 to 2018 after Dilma Rousseff's impeachment.
Michelle Alexander
Michelle Alexander is an American civil rights attorney, legal scholar, and author of the 2010 New York Times bestseller The New Jim Crow, which argues mass incarceration is a new racial caste system; not the Canadian artist or other namesakes.
Michelle Knotek
Michelle "Shelly" Knotek, Raymond, Washington woman who pleaded guilty via Alford plea in 2004 to second-degree murder and manslaughter in the abuse deaths of Kathy Loreno and Ron Woodworth; her husband David killed Shane Watson; sentenced to 266 months.
Michelle McNamara
Michelle McNamara, American true crime writer, founder of the True Crime Diary blog, coined the name Golden State Killer; author of the posthumous bestseller I'll Be Gone in the Dark (2018).
Michelle T. Friedland
Michelle T. Friedland is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Michelle W. Court
Michelle W. Court, also known as Michelle Williams Court, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Central District of California since 2024.
Mick Dodson
Mick Dodson, born Michael Dodson in 1950, is an Australian Aboriginal barrister and Indigenous rights advocate who was named Australian of the Year in 2009.
Mick Gatto
Dominic "Mick" Gatto: Melbourne underworld figure, former heavyweight boxer, and construction mediator; acquitted of the 2004 murder of Andrew Veniamin, linked to the Carlton Crew, and named in Geoffrey Watson's CFMEU corruption report, which he denies.
Mick Philpott
Mick Philpott, Derby father of 17, jailed for life in 2013 for the manslaughter of six of his children killed in a petrol fire at 18 Victory Road set to frame ex-partner Lisa Willis.
Mickey Cobras
The Mickey Cobras, historically the Egyptian Cobras and Cobra Stones, are a Chicago street gang allied with the Black P. Stones and named for Henry "Mickey" Cogwell.
Mickey Cohen
Mickey Cohen (Meyer Harris Cohen, 1913–1976) was a Brooklyn-born Los Angeles mobster, featherweight boxer, and West Coast crime boss who took over Bugsy Siegel's rackets in 1947, feuded with Jack Dragna, and was twice convicted of tax evasion.
Microcap stock fraud
Microcap stock fraud: securities fraud in stocks of companies under $250–300 million market cap, mainly on OTC markets; dominated by pump-and-dump schemes exploiting scarce public information, with SEC and FINRA enforcement and investor red flags.