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Troy Davis
Troy Anthony Davis, Georgia death row inmate convicted in 1991 of the 1989 murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail; seven of nine eyewitnesses recanted, no physical evidence, executed September 21, 2011.
Troy L. Nunley
Troy L. Nunley, also known as Troy Lynne Nunley, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of California, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2013.
Truce of Altmark
The Truce of Altmark (rozejm w Starym Targu) was a six-year truce between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden, signed on 26 September 1629 at Altmark in Royal Prussia.
Truce of Deulino (Деулинское перемирие)
Truce of Deulino (Деулинское перемирие, Rozejm w Dywilinie), armistice of 1(11) December 1618 between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia: 14.5 years, cession of Smolensk and Seversk lands, prisoner exchange, confirmed at Polyanovka 1634.
Truce of Leulinghem
Truce of Leulinghem: Anglo-French truce of the Hundred Years' War, first made 1389 at Leulinghem near Calais, extended 9 March 1396 with Richard II's marriage to Isabelle of France for 28 years until 1426, confirmed by Henry IV in 1400, ending with Henry V's war in 1415.
True crime
True crime: nonfiction genre narrating real criminal events with fiction-like storytelling across books, TV, podcasts, and streaming. Key facts: In Cold Blood founding work, Serial's 5 million downloads, 230 million US consumers, ethics and accuracy debates.
Trump v. Anderson
Trump v. Anderson, 601 U.S. _ (2024): Supreme Court case holding that states cannot enforce Fourteenth Amendment Section 3 disqualification against federal candidates, reversing the Colorado Supreme Court's exclusion of Trump from the 2024 primary ballot.
Trump v. Barbara
Trump v. Barbara, 609 U.S. _ (2026), is the Supreme Court birthright citizenship case, successor to Trump v. CASA, holding 6-3 that children born in the U.S. to unlawfully or temporarily present parents are citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment, striking down Executive Order 14160.
Trump v. CASA, Inc.
Trump v. CASA, Inc. (606 U.S. 831, 2025): Supreme Court decision, 6-3 per Justice Barrett, holding universal or nationwide injunctions likely exceed federal courts' equitable authority under the Judiciary Act of 1789, in challenges to Trump's birthright citizenship Executive Order 14160.
Trump v. Cook
Trump v. Cook, 609 U.S. _ (2026): Supreme Court case on President Trump's attempted removal of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook; 5-4 Roberts decision denied a stay, upholding the Fed's for-cause removal protection as the exception to Trump v. Slaughter.
Trump v. Hawaii
Trump v. Hawaii, 585 U.S. 667 (2018), the Supreme Court travel ban case upholding Proclamation 9645 under 8 U.S.C. §1182(f) by 5-4, also famous for declaring Korematsu 'gravely wrong' and overruled, a characterization scholars dispute as dicta.
Trump v. Internal Revenue Service
Trump v. Internal Revenue Service: 2026 Florida federal lawsuit by Donald Trump, the Trump Organization, and his sons seeking $10 billion from the IRS over the Charles Littlejohn tax-return leak; settled May 18, 2026 with a $1.776 billion fund and an audit bar.
Trump v. Slaughter
Trump v. Slaughter (2026) is the Supreme Court case, also styled Trump v. Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, holding 6-3 that the FTC's for-cause removal protection is unconstitutional and overruling Humphrey's Executor (1935), leaving the Federal Reserve a possible exception.
Trump v. United States
Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. _ (2024), Supreme Court case No. 23-939 holding former presidents absolutely immune from prosecution for core constitutional acts, presumptively immune for official acts, and not immune for unofficial acts.
Trung Duc Lu
Trung Duc Lu (Lư Đức Trung), Vietnamese-born fugitive and suspected Born to Kill (BTK/Canal Boys) gang member, added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted list March 11, 2026 as its 539th fugitive for the 2014 torture, kidnapping, and murder of two Vietnamese brothers in Philadelphia; $1 million reward, last confirmed in Vietnam.
Trương Mỹ Lan
Trương Mỹ Lan (张美兰) — Vietnamese real estate tycoon, chairwoman of Van Thinh Phat, secretly controlled SCB and embezzled $12.5 billion, Vietnam's largest fraud; sentenced to death April 2024.
Trust (law)
Trust (law): a fiduciary arrangement in which a settlor transfers assets to a trustee holding legal title for a beneficiary, originating in medieval English uses and recognized internationally under the 1985 Hague Trusts Convention.
Trust law in South Africa
Trust law in South Africa governs trusts, arrangements where a founder transfers property to trustees to administer for beneficiaries, under the Trust Property Control Act 57 of 1988.
Trust reception in civil-law systems
Trust reception in civil-law systems is how civil-law countries recognize the English trust, chiefly through the 1985 Hague Trusts Convention and domestic substitutes like the fiducie.
Trustee
Trustee: person or corporation holding legal title to trust property for beneficiaries under fiduciary duties of loyalty, care, and impartiality; also board members and US township trustees. Distinct from executors and agents.
Trustee Act 2000
Trustee Act 2000 (2000 c. 29), UK Act for England and Wales assented 23 November 2000, giving trustees a general power of investment, a statutory duty of care, land acquisition powers, and agent, nominee and custodian provisions.
Truth and reconciliation commission
A truth and reconciliation commission is an official, temporary, non-judicial body that investigates past atrocities and human rights abuses, ending with a final public report; it cannot prosecute.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)
South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), chaired by Desmond Tutu under the 1995 Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, investigated apartheid-era human rights violations, granted conditional amnesty for full disclosure (736 of 1,088 decisions granted), and recommended reparations.
Truth Be Told (2019 TV series)
Truth Be Told is a 2019 American crime drama on Apple TV+, created by Nichelle Tramble Spellman, based on Kathleen Barber's novel Are You Sleeping, and starring Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul.
Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (Mali)
The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (CVJR) was a Malian truth commission established in 2014 to investigate human rights abuses from 1960 through the 2012 crisis, collecting over 31,000 depositions before ending in 2022.
Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) was a truth commission of The Gambia, established in 2017 to investigate human rights abuses committed during Yahya Jammeh's 22-year rule.
Tsawwassen First Nation
Tsawwassen First Nation, a Coast Salish nation in British Canada's BC treaty process, effective April 3, 2009; first BC modern treaty nation to add treaty lands post-treaty (Brunswick Point, 2024).
Tsutomu Miyazaki (宮崎勤)
Tsutomu Miyazaki (宮崎勤), executed 17 June 2008 at age 45, was the Japanese serial killer called the Otaku Murderer, who abducted and murdered four girls aged 4 to 7 in Tokyo and Saitama in 1988–1989; death sentence finalized 2006.
Tucker Act
The Tucker Act (1887, 28 U.S.C. § 1491) waives U.S. sovereign immunity for money claims founded on the Constitution, statutes, regulations, or contracts, giving the Court of Federal Claims exclusive jurisdiction over $10,000+ claims and district courts concurrent jurisdiction below, via the Little Tucker Act.
Tucker L. Melancon
Tucker L. Melancon, born in 1946, is a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Louisiana, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994.