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Steve Marshall
Steve Marshall is an American Republican politician who has served as the 48th Attorney General of Alabama since 2017, after 16 years as Marshall County District Attorney.
Steven Avery
Steven Avery: Wisconsin man exonerated by DNA in 2003 after 18 years for a 1985 rape (Gregory Allen identified), later convicted in 2007 of murdering Teresa Halbach, subject of Making a Murderer.
Steven C. Seeger
Steven Charles Seeger is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois since 2019, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Steven D. Grimberg
Steven D. Grimberg, also known as Steven Daniel Grimberg, is a United States district judge for the Northern District of Georgia, appointed by Donald Trump in 2019.
Steven D. Merryday
Steven Douglas Merryday, born in 1950, is a United States district judge in the Middle District of Florida, appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Steven Donziger
Steven Donziger, American human rights and environmental lawyer, led the Lago Agrio lawsuit won against Chevron in Ecuador, was found to have procured the judgment by fraud in a US RICO case, was disbarred, and was convicted of criminal contempt.
Steven J. McAuliffe
Steven J. McAuliffe (born 1948), federal district judge for New Hampshire nominated by George H. W. Bush in 1992, chief judge 2004-2011, senior status 2013, widower of Christa McAuliffe.
Steven Jay Russell
Steven Jay Russell is an American con artist known for audacious nonviolent escapes from Texan jails in the 1990s; he served a 144-year sentence until his 2024 parole.
Steven Kazmierczak
Steven Phillip Kazmierczak, NIU shooter, killed five students and wounded many in Cole Hall, DeKalb, Illinois, on February 14, 2008, before killing himself; distinct from the unrelated 2025 Omar town hall assailant.
Steven Lawayne Nelson
Steven Lawayne Nelson (died February 5, 2025) was a Texas death row inmate executed for the 2011 robbery-murder of pastor Clint Dobson at NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington; convicted 2012 under the law of parties, also killed inmate Jonathon Holden in jail.
Steven Lorenzo
Steven Lorenzo (born 1959) is a Florida death row inmate who pleaded guilty to the 2003 GHB-facilitated murders of Jason Galehouse and Michael Wachholtz in Tampa, after a 200-year federal sentence; his death sentences were affirmed in 2025.
Steven M. Colloton
Steven M. Colloton is an American judge on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by George W. Bush in 2003 and serving as chief judge since 2024.
Steven Menashi
Steven James Menashi (born 1979), Second Circuit federal appeals judge confirmed 51-41 in 2019; former acting Education Department general counsel under DeVos and Trump White House associate counsel.
Steven P. Logan
Steven Paul Logan, born 1965, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Arizona since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Steven Pladl triple murder and suicide
Steven Pladl triple murder and suicide: on April 12, 2018 Pladl killed his infant son Bennett in Knightdale, NC, shot his daughter-wife Katie Pladl and her adoptive father Anthony Fusco in New Milford, CT, then died by suicide in Wingdale, NY, after incest arrests.
Steven Ray Thacker
Steven Ray Thacker (born 1970), also known as David Wilson, was an American triple murderer executed in Oklahoma on March 12, 2013, for the 1999 rape-murder of Laci Dawn Hill and killings in Missouri and Tennessee.
Steven Stayner
Steven Stayner, American kidnapping victim abducted at age 7 from Merced, California, on December 4, 1972, by Kenneth Parnell; escaped March 1, 1980, with fellow victim Timmy White; brother Cary Stayner later became the Yosemite murders serial killer.
Stevens Treaties
The Stevens Treaties are ten 1854–1855 agreements negotiated by Washington Territory Governor Isaac Stevens, some with Joel Palmer, with Pacific Northwest tribes; they reserve off-reservation fishing, hunting, and gathering rights, including the Makah whaling right.
Sting operation
Sting operation: covert police tactic creating or exploiting a crime opportunity to arrest offenders in the act; also called undercover decoy operations; distinguished from entrapment, which involves improper government inducement.
Stipendiary magistrate
Stipendiary magistrate: salaried, legally qualified judge in UK magistrates' courts, also called district judge (magistrates' courts) after the Access to Justice Act 1999; sat alone, unlike unpaid lay justices.
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is a global treaty adopted 22 May 2001, in force 17 May 2004, with 186 Parties. It bans or restricts POPs, requires National Implementation Plans, four-yearly reporting, POPRC chemical review, and Global Monitoring Plan effectiveness evaluation.
Stocks
Stocks are a wooden restraint device locking an offender's ankles for public humiliation, distinct from the pillory, which locks head and hands. Used from Solon's Athens through medieval and early modern Europe; pillory abolished in England 1837, stocks last used 1872.
Stolen Valor Act of 2013
Stolen Valor Act of 2013, Public Law 113-12, a US federal law amending 18 U.S.C. 704 to criminalize fraudulent claims of military decorations made for tangible gain, enacted after the Supreme Court struck down the 2005 Act in United States v. Alvarez.
Stoneman
Stoneman: press-given name for unidentified killer(s) of sleeping pavement dwellers in Mumbai (mid-1980s) and Kolkata (13 deaths from June 1989), heads crushed with stones or slabs; never solved, no conviction, single-killer theory unproven.
Stoning
Stoning (lapidation, rajm) is execution by group stone-throwing. Known from Biblical law, developed as a zina punishment in Islamic law, authorized by nine countries but rarely used judicially; UN bodies deem it torture.
Stop and identify statutes
Stop and identify statutes: US state laws requiring a person lawfully detained on reasonable suspicion to state a name, also called Hiibel laws. Upheld name-only in Hiibel v. Nevada (2004); limited by Brown v. Texas and Kolender v. Lawson.
Stop Online Piracy Act
Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), H.R. 3261, was a 2011 US anti-piracy bill by Rep. Lamar Smith that would have ordered ISPs, payment processors, and search engines to block foreign infringing sites; it died after January 2012 protests.
Stop-and-frisk in New York City
Stop-and-frisk in New York City is a police practice allowing officers to stop, question, and frisk people on reasonable suspicion, peaking at nearly 700,000 stops in 2011.
Strafgesetzbuch
Strafgesetzbuch (StGB), Germany's criminal code since 15 May 1871; General Part rebuilt 1 January 1975; Verbrechen vs Vergehen, murder section 211, current version consolidated 1998.
Strafgesetzbuch section 86a
§ 86a StGB, Germany's Criminal Code provision on use of symbols of unconstitutional and terrorist organizations: three-year maximum penalty, lookalike rule, social adequacy exemptions, key constitutional and ECHR case law.