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Trial of Jeffrey Donaldson
The trial of Jeffrey Donaldson was a criminal prosecution at Newry Crown Court in Northern Ireland concerning sexual offenses against two complainants. Donaldson, a former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, denied.
Trial of Laurent Gbagbo
The trial of Laurent Gbagbo was an International Criminal Court proceeding in which the former Ivorian president and Charles Blé Goudé faced crimes against humanity charges, ending in acquittal.
Trial of Michael Jackson
The 2005 criminal trial of Michael Jackson (People v. Jackson) in Santa Maria, California, on child molestation and conspiracy charges; acquitted on all 10 counts June 13, 2005, after a 3.5-month trial before Judge Rodney Melville.
Trial of Oscar Pistorius
Trial of Oscar Pistorius: 2014 Pretoria High Court prosecution of the Paralympic sprinter for killing Reeva Steenkamp; culpable homicide verdict upgraded to murder (dolus eventualis) on appeal; 13 years 5 months; paroled January 2024.
Trial of Saddam Hussein
Trial of Saddam Hussein: 2005-2006 prosecution of Iraq's former president before the Iraqi High Tribunal for the 1982 Dujail massacre; conviction for crimes against humanity on November 5, 2006, death sentence, and execution on December 30, 2006.
Trial of Satanta and Big Tree
The Trial of Satanta and Big Tree was an 1871 Texas court case in which two Kiowa leaders were convicted of murder for the Warren Wagon Train raid.
Trial of Sean Combs
Trial of Sean Combs (Diddy): 2025 federal SDNY case before Judge Arun Subramanian; convicted on two Mann Act prostitution-transportation counts, acquitted of racketeering and sex trafficking; sentenced to 50 months and a $500,000 fine, now on appeal.
Trial of Sean Dunn
Trial of Sean Dunn, formally United States v. Dunn (D.D.C. 1:25-cr-252), the 2025 'sandwich guy' case: a jury acquitted the former DOJ paralegal of misdemeanor assault under 18 U.S.C. 111 after a grand jury rejected a felony indictment.
Trial of Sheikh Hasina
Trial of Sheikh Hasina: ICT-1 Dhaka trial in absentia of the deposed Bangladeshi prime minister, with former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and ex-IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, for crimes against humanity in the 2024 July uprising; verdict 17 November 2025, death sentences for Hasina and Kamal, five years for Mamun.
Trial of Socrates
The trial of Socrates was the 399 BCE criminal proceeding in democratic Athens where the philosopher was convicted of impiety and corrupting the youth and executed by drinking hemlock.
Trial of Soldier F
Trial of Soldier F: Belfast Crown Court prosecution of an anonymous ex-Parachute Regiment lance corporal for two Bloody Sunday murders and five attempted murders (30 January 1972, Derry); acquitted on all counts by Judge Lynch KC on 23 October 2025.
Trial of the century
"Trial of the century" is a recurring media label for America's most sensational trials, from Scopes (1925) and Lindbergh-Hauptmann (1935) to the 1995 O.J. Simpson acquittal, watched by nearly 150 million, and later trials of Michael Jackson, Depp v. Heard, and Trump.
Trial of the Juntas
The Trial of the Juntas (Juicio a las Juntas) was Argentina's 1985 prosecution of nine former military commanders for human rights crimes committed during the 1976–1983 dictatorship.
Trial of the Nine Trey Gangsters
Trial of the Nine Trey Gangsters: 2019 SDNY federal racketeering case against Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods members, famous for Tekashi 6ix9ine's cooperation; Mack and Ellison convicted October 3, 2019.
Trial of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine
The Trial of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine (Спілка визволення України, SVU) was a Soviet show trial in Kharkiv in 1930, convicting 45 Ukrainian intellectuals of a fictitious organization.
Trial of Yolanda Saldívar
Trial of Yolanda Saldívar, State of Texas v. Saldívar, the 1995 Houston murder trial of Selena's fan club president; convicted October 23, 1995, sentenced to life with parole after 30 years, denied parole in 2025.
Trials for crimes against humanity in Argentina
The Trials for crimes against humanity in Argentina, known as Juicios por delitos de lesa humanidad, are federal prosecutions for dictatorship-era crimes, resumed in 2001.
Tribunal
Tribunal: a specialized adjudicative body, often an administrative tribunal, deciding disputes or reviewing government decisions outside ordinary courts. Key examples: French Conseil d'État (1799), US federal agencies, UK tribunal system, Australia's Administrative Review Tribunal (2024).
Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014
The Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014 is an Act of the Scottish Parliament, passed in 2014, that establishes the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland and the Upper Tribunal for Scotland.
Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act 1921
Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act 1921 (1921 c. 7), UK statute giving court powers to public inquiry tribunals after a resolution of both Houses; origin in the Ministry of Munitions inquiry, reviewed by the Salmon Commission, repealed by the Inquiries Act 2005.
Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
UK Act of Parliament (2007 c. 15, Royal Assent 19 July 2007) implementing the Leggatt review; created the unified two-tier First-tier and Upper Tribunal system under a Senior President of Tribunals and reformed enforcement, debt relief, judicial appointments, and judicial review.
Trina L. Thompson
Trina L. Thompson, born Trina Lynn Thompson in 1961, is a United States district judge for the Northern District of California, appointed by President Biden in 2022.
Trinitarios
Trinitarios (3NI, La Trinitaria): transnational Dominican street and prison gang founded in the New York correctional system (late 1980s to early 1990s), known for drug trafficking, extreme violence, machete use, rivalry with DDP, and RICO prosecutions in Massachusetts, New York, and Spain.
Tripartite Pact
Tripartite Pact: the September 27, 1940 Berlin alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan (the Axis), a ten-year mutual-assistance treaty aimed at deterring the United States, built on the Anti-Comintern and Pact of Steel treaties.
Triple Intervention
Triple Intervention (Tripartite Intervention): Russia, Germany, and France on 23 April 1895 forced Japan to return the Liaodong Peninsula ceded by the Treaty of Shimonoseki; the powers then took leased Chinese territories themselves.
Triple talaq in India
Triple talaq (talaq-e-biddat) is instant, irrevocable unilateral Islamic divorce by pronouncing talaq three times. India's Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in Shayara Bano (2017), and the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019 criminalized it with up to three years' imprisonment.
TRIPS Agreement
The TRIPS Agreement, or Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, is a WTO treaty setting minimum intellectual property standards for all members, signed in Marrakesh in 1994.
Triumvirate
Triumvirate (triumviri, tresviri): a Roman board of three magistrates or commissioners; also the informal 60 BCE alliance of Caesar, Pompey, Crassus and the legal 43 BCE triumvirate of Octavian, Antony, Lepidus under the lex Titia.
Troutman Pepper Locke
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP is an Am Law 50 U.S. law firm formed January 1, 2025 by merging Troutman Pepper and Locke Lord; 1,600+ attorneys, 33 offices, $1.85 billion 2025 revenue, strong energy, financial services, and litigation practices.
Troxel v. Granville
Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000): Supreme Court case striking down Washington's RCW 26.10.160(3) as applied, holding fit parents' visitation decisions get special weight under Fourteenth Amendment due process, over grandparent visitation.