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Middle Temple
Middle Temple, formally the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, is one of the four London Inns of Court with the exclusive right to Call barristers. Traced to the mid-14th century, it holds a 1608 royal land grant, a Grade I Tudor Hall, and trains students through Qualifying Sessions, Call, and pupillage support.
Middlesex Guildhall
The Middlesex Guildhall is a Grade II listed Gothic Revival building on Parliament Square in London, built 1906 to 1913 and home of the UK Supreme Court since 2009.
Midnight Judges Act
Midnight Judges Act is the Judiciary Act of 1801, which created sixteen Federalist-filled circuit judgeships in Adams' final weeks; Jeffersonian Republicans repealed it in 1802, upheld in Stuart v. Laird.
Migration and refugee merits review in Australia
Migration and refugee merits review in Australia is the tribunal re-examination of visa refusals and cancellations, replaced by the Administrative Review Tribunal in October 2024.
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, "El Padrino" or "El Jefe de Jefes" (born 1946, Culiacán, Sinaloa), founded the Guadalajara Cartel, allied with Pablo Escobar, and was arrested in 1989 for the Camarena murder; his organization later split into the Sinaloa and Tijuana cartels.
Miguel Caro Quintero
Miguel Ángel Caro Quintero is a Mexican drug trafficker who led the Sonora Cartel, brother of Rafael Caro Quintero, and was extradited to the United States in 2009.
Miguel Poiares Maduro
Miguel Poiares Maduro (Luís Miguel Poiares Pessoa Maduro), Portuguese EU law scholar born 1967 in Coimbra; Advocate General at the CJEU 2003–2009 (Kadi opinion), Portugal's Minister for Regional Development 2013–2015, and theorist of constitutional pluralism.
Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela
Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, Colombian co-leader of the Cali Cartel with brother Gilberto; extradited to the US in 2005, pleaded guilty in 2006 to cocaine importation, sentenced to 30 years and $2.1 billion forfeiture, imprisoned at Big Spring, Texas.
Miguel Treviño Morales
Miguel Treviño Morales, alias Z-40, Mexican cartel boss born in Nuevo Laredo who led Los Zetas after Lazcano's 2012 death, founded successor CDN, was captured in 2013 and sent to US custody in 2025.
Mikal Mahdi
Mikal Deen Mahdi was an American spree killer executed by firing squad in South Carolina on April 11, 2025, for the 2004 murder of Captain James Myers.
Mike Davis (American lawyer)
Mike Davis, American lawyer and conservative activist, founder of the Article III Project and former chief counsel for nominations to Senator Chuck Grassley; also leads MRDLaw, the Internet Accountability Project, and advises on Trump-era judicial confirmations.
Mike Hilgers
Mike Hilgers is an American politician and the Attorney General of Nebraska, a Republican who took office in 2023 after serving as Speaker of the Nebraska Legislature.
Mike Nifong
Mike Nifong (Michael Byron Nifong), Durham County, North Carolina district attorney from 2005, prosecuted three Duke lacrosse players on false 2006 rape charges, withheld exculpatory DNA evidence, and was disbarred in June 2007 and jailed for criminal contempt.
Mikhail Popkov (Михаил Викторович Попков)
Mikhail Popkov (Михаил Попков), the "Angarsk Maniac" and "Werewolf", is a Russian ex-policeman convicted of at least 91 murders of women in Irkutsk Oblast, 1992–2011, caught by DNA in 2012 and serving two life sentences plus added terms.
Mikheil Saakashvili (მიხეილ სააკაშვილი)
Mikheil Saakashvili (მიხეილ სააკაშვილი) led Georgia's 2003 Rose Revolution and served as president 2004–2013, driving anti-corruption reforms, losing the 2008 war with Russia, and now serving a 12½-year prison term.
Milan D. Smith, Jr.
Milan Dale Smith, Jr. is an American jurist serving as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 2006.
Military prison
Military prison: armed-forces confinement facility for service members under the UCMJ, in brigs, stockades, and disciplinary barracks such as the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, established 1874, with rehabilitation and restoration to duty as goals.
Miller test
The Miller test, from Miller v. California (1973), is the three-part U.S. Supreme Court standard for obscenity: prurient appeal under community standards, patent offensiveness, and lack of serious value.
Miller v. California
Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973), the U.S. Supreme Court decision establishing the three-prong Miller test for obscenity (prurient interest, patent offensiveness, lack of serious value), replacing Memoirs and permitting local community standards.
Millhaven Institution
Millhaven Institution is a maximum-security CSC penitentiary in Bath, Ontario, opened 1971 after the Kingston riot, capacity 496, housing an Assessment Unit, SIU, and Regional Treatment Centre.
Ming Sen Shiue
Ming Sen Shiue kidnapped teacher Mary Stauffer and her daughter in Minnesota in 1980, killed 6-year-old Jason Wilkman, drew landmark sentencing rulings on body concealment, and was civilly committed in 2011.
Minimum Age Convention, 1973
Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) is an ILO fundamental convention requiring a minimum age for employment, adopted 26 June 1973, in force 19 June 1976, with 177 ratifications and ages of 15, 13, and 18 years.
Minimum Wages Act 1948
Minimum Wages Act 1948: Indian statute letting central and state governments fix and revise minimum wages in scheduled employments; assent 15 March 1948; repealed by the Code on Wages, 2019, effective 21 November 2025.
Minor (law)
Minor (law): a person below the age of majority, usually 18 in the US, UK, and Australia. Minors have limited contractual capacity (voidable or void ab initio depending on jurisdiction), remain under parental care unless emancipated, and are treated differently in criminal, property, and record-privacy matters.
Minutes
Minutes: a court clerk's summary record of daily proceedings, listing participants and orders, distinct from verbatim transcripts; rough minutes held public records in Copley Press v. Superior Court (1992).
Miranda M. Du
Miranda M. Du, also known as Miranda Mai Du, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Nevada since 2012, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Miranda v. Arizona
Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), the Warren Court's 5–4 landmark, requires police to warn custodial suspects of silence and counsel rights before interrogation; it created the Miranda warning and the exclusion of unwarned statements.
Miranda warning
Miranda warning: the US police advisement of silence, use of statements, and counsel rights, required before custodial interrogation since Miranda v. Arizona (384 U.S. 436), decided 5-4 on June 13, 1966, named for Ernesto Miranda.
Miriam Defensor Santiago
Miriam Defensor Santiago, born Miriam Palma Defensor (1945–2016), was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as a trial judge, cabinet secretary, and two-term senator.
Miryang gang rape
The Miryang gang rape (밀양 집단 성폭행 사건) was a 2004 case in which 44 male high school students from Miryang, South Korea, sexually assaulted a Ulsan middle school girl over a year; it became a national scandal over police mistreatment of victims, an NHRC inquiry, and a 2008 Supreme Court state compensation ruling.