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Tommaso Buscetta
Tommaso Buscetta (Palermo 1928 – North Miami 2000), Sicilian Cosa Nostra boss called the 'boss of two worlds', became Italy's most important pentito; his 1984 testimony to Falcone produced 366 arrests and the 1986–87 Maxi Trial.
Tommy Lee Walker
Tommy Lee Walker (1935–1956), a Black Dallas man wrongfully convicted in 1954 of murdering Venice Parker and executed in 1956; exonerated posthumously by Dallas County on January 21, 2026. Distinct from the Ninth Circuit felon-in-possession defendant of the same name.
Tommy Lucchese
Tommy Lucchese (Gaetano Lucchese, 'Three-Finger Brown', 1899–1967), Palermo-born New York Mafia boss who led the Lucchese crime family from 1951, ran garment-district rackets, allied with Carlo Gambino, and died free.
Tommy Lynn Sells
Tommy Lynn Sells, the "Coast to Coast Killer" (1964-2014), was an American drifter and serial killer executed in Texas for the 1999 murder of Kaylene Harris; he claimed up to 70 murders.
Tong (堂) (organization)
Tong (堂), Chinese for association, names fraternal organizations in North American Chinatowns that provided mutual aid to Chinese immigrants and, in some cases, ran vice businesses; the Hip Sing and On Leong tongs fought 19-year tong wars.
Tong Wars
Tong wars were violent conflicts between rival Chinese-American tongs, notably the Hip Sing Tong and On Leong Tong, in New York, San Francisco, and other Chinatowns from the 1880s to the 1920s, fought over gambling, opium, prostitution, and territory.
Tony Accardo
Tony Accardo (Anthony Joseph Accardo, 1906-1992), "Joe Batters" and "Big Tuna," boss of the Chicago Outfit from the 1940s to his death, a former Capone driver and bodyguard whose only conviction, a 1960 tax fraud case, was reversed in 1962.
Tony Buzbee
Tony Buzbee (Anthony G. Buzbee) is a Houston trial lawyer, Texas A&M graduate, and Marine veteran who founded the Buzbee Law Firm in 2000, known for the BP Texas City verdict, Deshaun Watson and Sean Combs lawsuits, and litigation battles with Jay-Z.
Tony Martin (farmer)
Tony Martin (Anthony Edward Martin), Norfolk farmer who shot dead 16-year-old burglar Fred Barras at Bleak House in 1999; murder conviction reduced to manslaughter on appeal; released 2003; landmark UK self-defence case.
Tony Mokbel
Tony Mokbel (Antonios Sajih Mokbel, طوني مقبل, "Fat Tony"), Australian drug trafficker, head of The Company in Melbourne's gangland war; fled to Greece 2006, extradited 2008, 30-year sentence later unwound in the Lawyer X scandal, free by 2026.
Tony Soprano
Tony Soprano is the fictional New Jersey mob boss played by James Gandolfini in David Chase's HBO series The Sopranos (1999-2007), a panic-attack-stricken antihero in therapy with Dr. Jennifer Melfi who redefined television drama.
Tony West (attorney)
Tony West (Derek Anthony West, born 1965) is Uber's Chief Legal Officer since 2017; former 17th US Associate Attorney General (2012-14), Civil Division chief who led the DOMA constitutional review, and PepsiCo general counsel.
Tore Schei
Tore Schei (born 1946) is a Norwegian jurist, 19th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway 2002–2016 after serving as justice from 1986, known for the Scandinavian Star inquiry and civil procedure reform.
Toril Marie Øie
Toril Marie Øie (born 1960, Oslo) is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway since 1 March 2016, the first woman and 20th holder of the office, formerly Ministry of Justice Legislation Department head.
Toronto Purchase
Toronto Purchase (Treaty 13): 1787 agreement and 1805 indenture surrendering about 250,880 acres north of Lake Ontario, including Toronto, from the Mississaugas to the Crown; contested claim settled in 2010 for $145 million.
Torres Strait Treaty
The Torres Strait Treaty is a bilateral agreement between Australia and Papua New Guinea, signed in 1978, that sets their maritime boundary and creates a Protected Zone.
Tort
A tort is a civil wrong, an act or omission causing injury or harm to another for which courts impose liability, chiefly through monetary damages.
Tort law of Japan
The tort law of Japan, based on Articles 709 to 724 of the Civil Code, makes a person who negligently infringes another's rights compensate the damage.
Tort law of South Korea
The tort law of South Korea requires a person who willfully or negligently injures another to compensate the damages, governed by Articles 750 to 766 of the Korean Civil Act.
Tort Liability Law of the People's Republic of China
The Tort Liability Law of the People's Republic of China, or Tort Law, was the PRC's first comprehensive tort code, enacted in 2009 and effective 2010.
Tortious interference
Tortious interference, or intentional interference with contractual relations, is a common law tort covering wrongful interference with contracts or business expectancies, split by the 2020 Third Restatement into contract and economic-expectation torts with distinct elements.
Torture
Torture: intentional infliction of severe physical or mental pain by officials, absolutely prohibited under the 1984 Convention against Torture (176 parties), the Geneva Conventions, and the Istanbul Protocol documentation standard.
Tower Hill
Tower Hill, open ground north and west of the Tower of London in Trinity Square, was London's public execution site for Tower prisoners, about 125 beheadings and hangings from 1388 to 1780, memorialized by 29 names.
Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales
Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005): Supreme Court case holding that a restraining-order holder has no due process property interest in police enforcement of the order, after Castle Rock, Colorado police failed to act on Jessica Gonzales's reports.
Tracey Wigginton
Tracey Avril Wigginton (born 1965), the Australian "lesbian vampire killer", murdered Edward Baldock in Brisbane in 1989 with three female co-accused so she could drink his blood; life sentence in 1991, paroled January 2012.
Tracie Andrews
Tracie Andrews, British woman convicted in 1997 of murdering her fiancé Lee Harvey in Alvechurch, Worcestershire, in 1996 after inventing a road-rage attacker; sentenced to life, minimum 14 years, released 2011.
Tracing (law)
Tracing (law): the evidential process in English and Commonwealth property law for identifying substitutes and proceeds of misappropriated assets, spanning common law tracing into unmixed assets and equitable tracing into mixed funds.
Tracy Walker (serial killer)
Tracy Walker, also known as "Solo" (born 1964), an American homeless serial killer who killed three homeless people near Compton Creek, Los Angeles, in 2020–2021, was arrested in February 2021, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 110 years without parole; distinct from other people named Tracy Walker.
Trade name
Trade name (DBA, fictitious or assumed name, trading name): the name identifying a business itself, unlike a trademark which identifies goods or services; registered at state level, not registrable under the Lanham Act unless used as a mark.
Trade secret
Trade secret: intellectual property right in confidential business information that is secret, commercially valuable because secret, and protected by reasonable measures; no registration, indefinite duration, no protection against reverse engineering or independent invention.