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Ron McCallum
Ron McCallum AO, born 1948, is an Australian labor law academic at the University of Sydney and the first totally blind full professor in Australia or New Zealand.
Ron Williamson
Ron Williamson (1953–2004), Ada, Oklahoma baseball draftee wrongfully convicted of the 1982 rape-murder of Debra Sue Carter, sentenced to death, exonerated by DNA in 1999 after 11 years; subject of Grisham's The Innocent Man.
Ronald A. Guzman
Ronald A. Guzman, born in 1948 in Puerto Rico, is a senior federal judge in Illinois, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1999 after serving as a magistrate judge.
Ronald Clark O'Bryan
Ronald Clark O'Bryan, known as the "Candy Man," was a Texas optician executed in 1984 for fatally poisoning his eight-year-old son with cyanide-laced Halloween candy in 1974.
Ronald DeFeo Jr.
Ronald DeFeo Jr. (1951-2021), American mass murderer who killed six family members at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, New York, on November 13, 1974; convicted 1975; his crime launched the disputed Amityville Horror haunting story he called a hoax.
Ronald Dominique
Ronald Joseph Dominique, the Bayou Strangler, an American serial killer active in southeastern Louisiana 1997 to 2006, confessed to raping and strangling at least 23 men; arrested 2006, pleaded guilty to murder in 2008.
Ronald Dworkin
Ronald Dworkin (1931-2013), American legal philosopher at Yale, Oxford, and NYU, challenged H.L.A. Hart's legal positivism with interpretivism and law as integrity, arguing judges are bound by legal-moral principles; wrote Taking Rights Seriously and Law's Empire, won the Holberg and Balzan prizes.
Ronald Gene Simmons
Ronald Gene Simmons, also known as R. Gene Simmons, was an American retired Air Force master sergeant who killed 16 people, 14 of them family, near Dover and Russellville, Arkansas, December 22–28, 1987, the worst single-family mass murder in U.S. history; executed June 25, 1990.
Ronald Hughes
Ronald Hughes, the "hippie lawyer," was Leslie Van Houten's defense attorney in the 1970 Tate-LaBianca Manson trial. He defied Manson over testifying, vanished during a camping recess at Sespe Hot Springs, and was found dead months later, cause undetermined.
Ronald L. Buckwalter
Ronald L. Buckwalter is an American jurist, a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1990.
Ronald L. Gilman
Ronald L. Gilman, also known as Ronald Lee Gilman, is an American jurist and senior judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President Clinton in 1997.
Ronald M. Gould
Ronald M. Gould, born Ronald Murray Gould in 1946, is an American jurist serving as a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1999, appointed by President Clinton.
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr.
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. is an American lawyer and Harvard Law School professor known for conviction-integrity reform and for acquitting Aaron Hernandez in a double murder case.
Ronnie Abrams
Ronnie Abrams (born 1968) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge of the Southern District of New York since 2012, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Ronnie Biggs
Ronnie Biggs (Ronald Arthur Biggs), English Great Train Robber of August 1963; jailed 30 years, escaped Wandsworth 1965, lived in Rio de Janeiro 35 years, returned to UK 2001, freed 2009, died 2013.
Ronnie Knight
Ronnie Knight (1934–2023), London club owner of the A&R and Tin Pan Alley, ex-husband of Barbara Windsor, Costa del Crime fugitive, jailed seven years in 1995 for handling Security Express robbery proceeds.
Ronnie Lee Gardner
Ronnie Lee Gardner, Utah death row inmate convicted of the 1985 murder of attorney Michael Burdell during a courthouse escape attempt; chose death by firing squad and was the last US prisoner executed that way, June 18, 2010, until South Carolina resumed the method in 2025.
Roopali H. Desai
Roopali H. Desai, born in 1978 in Toronto, is an American jurist serving as a Ninth Circuit judge since 2022, the first South Asian person appointed to that court.
Root–Takahira Agreement
The Root–Takahira Agreement (高平・ルート協定) was a 1908 exchange of notes between Elihu Root and Ambassador Kogoro Takahira affirming the Pacific status quo and the Open Door principle in China.
Roper v. Simmons
Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005): 5–4 Supreme Court decision abolishing the death penalty for offenders under 18 at the time of the crime, overturning Stanford v. Kentucky and grounding Graham, Miller, and Montgomery.
Rosalyn Higgins
Dame Rosalyn Higgins is a British barrister and scholar who served on the International Court of Justice from 1995 to 2009, the first woman judge and President.
Rosanna M. Peterson
Rosanna Malouf Peterson, born 1951, is a senior U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of Washington, appointed by Obama in 2010 and chief judge from 2011 to 2016.
Roscoe Pound
Roscoe Pound (1870–1964) was an American legal scholar, Harvard Law School dean 1916–1936, and founder of sociological jurisprudence and the social engineering theory of law; he was also a trained botanist with a lichen named roscoepoundia after him.
Rose West
Rose West (Rosemary Letts, born 1953) is a British serial killer convicted in 1995 of ten murders committed with her husband Fred at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester; she is serving a whole life tariff.
Roseann A. Ketchmark
Roseann A. Ketchmark is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Missouri since 2015, nominated by President Barack Obama.
Rosemary M. Collyer
Rosemary M. Collyer (1945-2026), D.C. federal district judge (2002-2020), FISC presiding judge 2016-2019, first woman NLRB General Counsel and first woman chair of Crowell & Moring.
Rosemary Márquez
Rosemary Márquez (born 1968) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Arizona since 2014, nominated by President Barack Obama.
Roslyn O. Silver
Roslyn O. Silver, born 1946, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona since 2013.
Ross Goodman
Ross Goodman, full name Ross Carl Goodman, is an American criminal defense attorney in Las Vegas, Nevada, and founder of Goodman Law Group, established in 2001.
Ross Ulbricht
Ross Ulbricht (born 1984), creator of the Silk Road darknet market as "Dread Pirate Roberts"; convicted 2015 on seven counts, sentenced to life, appeals failed, pardoned by Trump January 21, 2025.