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Rodrick Cardale Reed
Rodrick Cardale Reed, aka Boulevard or Li'l Rod, is a Compton Fruit Town Piru figure who led a Southern California PCP ring, was convicted in 2005, and is the younger brother of Texas death-row inmate Rodney Reed.
Rodrigo Duterte
Rodrigo Roa Duterte, born 1945, Filipino lawyer and politician, longtime Davao City mayor and 16th president of the Philippines (2016–2022), known for the deadly war on drugs; now in ICC custody facing a crimes-against-humanity trial opening 30 November 2026.
Rodrigo Lara
Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was a Colombian lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Justice under Belisario Betancur and was assassinated in 1984 on Pablo Escobar's orders.
Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), the US Supreme Court decision recognizing a Fourteenth Amendment right to abortion and creating the trimester framework; reframed by Casey's undue burden standard, overruled by Dobbs in June 2022.
Roger B. Taney
Roger B. Taney, also known as Roger Brooke Taney, was an American jurist who served as the fifth Chief Justice of the United States from 1836 until his death in 1864.
Roger Gregory
Roger Gregory is an American judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the first African American to sit on that court.
Roger Kibbe
Roger Reece Kibbe, the "I-5 Strangler," was an American serial killer who murdered at least seven women in Northern California, 1977–1987. Convicted 1991 of Darcie Frackenpohl's murder, he pleaded guilty to six more killings in 2009 and was strangled by cellmate Jason Budrow at Mule Creek State Prison in 2021.
Roger L. Hunt
Roger L. Hunt, born 1942, is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge for the District of Nevada from 2000 to 2011, appointed by Bill Clinton.
Roger L. Wollman
Roger L. Wollman, born 1934, is an American jurist who served as chief justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court and as a judge on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Roger Wilbraham
Sir Roger Wilbraham (1553-1616), English lawyer, Solicitor-General for Ireland from 1586 under Elizabeth I, later Master of Requests and Surveyor of the Court of Wards and Liveries under James I; kept a journal published in 1902.
Roh Moo-hyun
Roh Moo-hyun (노무현), 16th President of South Korea 2003–2008, human rights lawyer, survived a 2004 impeachment, pursued North Korea engagement, died in 2009.
Rohingya genocide
Rohingya genocide: alleged genocide against Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority, chiefly the 2017 Rakhine clearance operations. Parallel proceedings at the ICJ (The Gambia v. Myanmar), the ICC, and Argentine universal jurisdiction courts.
Roland Freisler
Roland Freisler (1893-1945), Nazi jurist, State Secretary in the Reich Justice Ministry 1934-1942, Wannsee Conference participant, and President of the Volksgerichtshof from 1942, known for show trials, mass death sentences, and death in a 1945 Berlin air raid.
Roman consul
Roman consul (consul, Greek hypatos): one of two annually elected chief magistrates of the Roman Republic holding imperium for civil and military command; top of the cursus honorum, eponym of the year, surviving as an honor until Justinian's 6th century.
Roman dictator
The Roman dictator (Dictātor) was an extraordinary magistrate of the Roman Republic, appointed by the Senate with supreme authority, traditionally for six months, later held by Sulla and Caesar.
Roman Inquisition
Roman Inquisition (Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition), papal tribunal founded by Paul III in 1542 to prosecute heresy and censor books; became the Holy Office, now the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Roman law
Roman law: the legal system of ancient Rome from the Twelve Tables (c. 450 BC) to Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis (529–534), basis of continental civil law and a major influence on common law.
Roman magistrate
Roman magistrate (magistratus): elected or appointed executive official of the Roman state. Ordinary magistrates (consuls, praetors, quaestors, aediles, censors, tribunes) versus extraordinary ones (dictator, interrex); potestas and imperium, cursus honorum, annual tenure, tribunician veto.
Roman Polanski sexual abuse case
The Roman Polanski sexual abuse case is a 1977 California prosecution in which director Roman Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful intercourse with 13-year-old Samantha Geimer, then fled the United States in 1978.
Roman succession law
Roman succession law is the body of Roman private law determining who took a deceased person's estate, developing through Twelve Tables, praetorian, and Justinianic regimes whose concepts survive in modern succession law.
Roman–Persian Wars
The Roman–Persian Wars, also known as the Perso-Byzantine wars, were fought over seven centuries (92 BCE–628 CE) between Rome and the Parthian and Sasanian empires.
Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations
Rome Convention (1961), formally the International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations: WIPO/ILO/UNESCO treaty on neighbouring rights, adopted October 26, 1961, in force May 18, 1964, 100 parties.
Rome I Regulation
The Rome I Regulation is an EU regulation that determines which national law governs contracts with an international element, replacing the 1980 Rome Convention from December 2009.
Rome Statute
The Rome Statute, adopted in Rome in 1998, created the International Criminal Court, the first permanent international criminal court, effective in 2002 with 125 states parties.
Romell Broom
Romell Broom, Ohio death row inmate convicted of the 1984 rape-murder of Tryna Middleton, survived a botched 2009 lethal injection after 18 failed needle sticks; courts allowed a second attempt, but he died of COVID-19 in 2020.
Romer v. Evans
Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620 (1996): Supreme Court case striking down Colorado's Amendment 2, which barred local protection against sexual-orientation discrimination, under the Equal Protection Clause's rational basis review due to animus.
Ron Clark
Ron Clark (born 1953) is an American jurist, a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Texas appointed by George W. Bush in 2002.
Ron Filipkowski
Ron Filipkowski is an American attorney, former Marine, and former state and federal prosecutor who became a political commentator as editor-in-chief of MeidasTouch.com after leaving the Republican Party in 2020.
Ron Goldman
Ron Goldman (Ronald Lyle Goldman, 1968-1994) was a Chicago-born waiter at Brentwood's Mezzaluna restaurant, stabbed to death with Nicole Brown Simpson on June 12, 1994; O.J. Simpson was acquitted criminally in 1995 but found liable in the 1997 civil trial.
Ron Kuby
Ron Kuby (Ronald L. Kuby), Manhattan criminal-defense and civil-rights lawyer, William Kunstler's partner 1983-1995, won $43M Goetz verdict, WABC radio co-host with Curtis Sliwa.