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Carl Gröpler
Carl Gröpler (Franz Friedrich Carl Gröpler) was a German executioner who served about 30 years, carried out roughly 130 executions, and beheaded Peter Kürten, the "Vampire of Düsseldorf", in 1931.
Carl J. Barbier
Carl J. Barbier, born in 1944, is a federal judge in the Eastern District of Louisiana appointed by Bill Clinton in 1998 who took senior status in 2023.
Carl J. Nichols
Carl J. Nichols, born 1970 in Rhinebeck, NY, is a U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia, confirmed 55-43 in May 2019 as a Trump appointee; also FISC judge and presiding judge since 2026, handling January 6 and Trump administration litigation.
Carl Panzram
Carl Panzram (1892-1930), American career criminal and confessed serial killer, executed at Leavenworth for killing laundry foreman Robert Warnke; his death-row autobiography, kept by guard Henry Lesser, was published in 1970 as Killer: A Journal of Murder.
Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt (1888–1985), German legal and political theorist, author of Political Theology, The Concept of the Political, and Constitutional Theory; theorist of sovereign exception and friend-enemy distinction; Nazi-era Crown Jurist.
Carl Tanzler
Carl Tanzler (Georg Karl Tänzler, Count Carl von Cosel, 1877-1952), German-born Key West radiology technologist who exhumed tuberculosis patient Elena Milagro de Hoyos in 1933 and lived with her preserved corpse for seven years until the 1940 discovery; case dropped under the statute of limitations.
Carl Williams (criminal)
Carl Anthony Williams (1970-2010), Melbourne amphetamine trafficker and gangland war figure, ordered murders of Moran family rivals, received three consecutive life sentences, and was bashed to death in Barwon Prison.
Carla Del Ponte
Carla Del Ponte (born 1947) is a Swiss former magistrate, Swiss Attorney General from 1994, and UN chief prosecutor of the ICTY (1999-2007) and ICTR (1999-2003), known for the Milošević trial and her 2008 Kosovo organ-trafficking allegations.
Carlie's Law
Carlie's Law (H.R. 4150, 108th Congress) was a 2004 federal bill by Rep. Katherine Harris named for murder victim Carlie Brucia; it would have mandated revocation of federal probation for violent offenders but never became law.
Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co
Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co [1893] 1 QB 256, English Court of Appeal case holding a £100 influenza-reward advertisement was a binding unilateral offer accepted by performance, with the £1,000 Alliance Bank deposit negating puffery; leading precedent on unilateral contracts.
Carlo Gambino
Carlo Gambino (1902–1976), Sicilian-born American Mafia boss known as Don Carlo, led New York's Gambino crime family from 1957 to 1976, controlled East Coast rackets, and died of natural causes without significant prison time.
Carlos E. Mendoza
Carlos E. Mendoza, born Carlos Eduardo Mendoza in 1970 in Hialeah, Florida, is a United States district judge for the Middle District of Florida since 2014.
Carlos F. Lucero
Carlos F. Lucero, born 1940, is an American judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1995.
Carlos Lehder
Carlos Lehder is a Colombian-German former drug trafficker who co-founded the Medellín cartel and was released in Colombia in 2025 after more than 30 years in US prison.
Carlos Marcello
Carlos Marcello (Calogero Minacore, 1910-1993), boss of the New Orleans Mafia from 1947, Gulf Coast organized crime overlord, deported 1961, Brilab convict, HSCA Kennedy assassination figure.
Carlos Menem
Carlos Saúl Menem (1930–2021), Argentine Peronist lawyer-politician, president 1989–1999; convertibility peso–dollar peg, privatizations, 1994 reform, later arms-smuggling conviction contested by Reuters; senator until death.
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878-1959), Argentine jurist and foreign minister 1932-1938, first Latin American Nobel laureate: Peace Prize 1936 for the 1933 Anti-War Pact and Chaco War mediation between Bolivia and Paraguay; later rector of the University of Buenos Aires.
Carlos T. Bea
Carlos T. Bea, born in Spain in 1934, is an American jurist who served on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals from 2003 until taking senior status in 2019.
Carlton Leach
Carlton Leach, also known as "The Footsoldier", is an English former West Ham ICF football hooligan, doorman, and author born in 1959 in Canning Town, London, whose autobiography Muscle inspired the 2007 film Rise of the Footsoldier.
Carlton W. Reeves
Carlton Wayne Reeves, born 1964, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Mississippi, appointed by Barack Obama in 2010 and chair of the United States Sentencing Commission since 2022.
Carmageddon
Carmageddon (1997) is a vehicular combat racing game by Stainless Games and SCi where players win races by completing laps, destroying rivals, or killing pedestrians; it sparked censorship, sold millions, and spawned a series.
Carmen Sandiego (character)
Carmen Sandiego is the fictional master thief created for Brøderbund's 1985 educational game Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? by Dane Bigham, Lauren Elliott, Gene Portwood, and David Siefkin, head of V.I.L.E. and star of games, TV shows, and a 2019 Netflix series.
Carmine Agnello
Carmine Agnello is the name of a Gambino crime family member, ex-husband of Victoria Gotti, and his son, a reality TV personality imprisoned for COVID-19 loan fraud.
Carmine Falcone
Carmine "The Roman" Falcone is a DC Comics Gotham crime lord created by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli in Batman: Year One (1987), head of the Falcone crime family, killed by Two-Face in The Long Halloween, and portrayed by Tom Wilkinson, John Doman, Titus Welliver, John Turturro, and Mark Strong.
Carmine Galante
Carmine Galante (1910–1979), nicknamed 'The Cigar' and 'Lilo', was an American Mafioso and de facto boss of New York's Bonanno crime family. He built the family's Montreal heroin pipeline, served 12 years of a 20-year narcotics sentence, and was shot dead at a Brooklyn restaurant in 1979.
Carmine Persico
Carmine John Persico Jr., 'The Snake' (August 8, 1933 - 2019), longtime boss of New York's Colombo crime family, convicted in the 1986 Commission Trial, ran the family from prison, and died serving a long federal sentence.
Carnal knowledge
Carnal knowledge, a criminal-law term of art for sexual intercourse requiring slight penetration, used in rape, statutory rape and sodomy statutes; retained in US federal, Virginia and Georgia law, replaced elsewhere.
Carnkie murders
The Carnkie murders were the killings of Lesley Ford and her four children by her husband Lee Ford at their home in Carnkie, near Helston, Cornwall, in 2000.
Carol B. Amon
Carol B. Amon, born Carol Bagley Amon in 1946, is an American judge on the federal district court in Brooklyn, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1990.
Carol Corrigan
Carol A. Corrigan (born 1948, Stockton, California) is an associate justice of the California Supreme Court, appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger in December 2005 and confirmed January 2006; former Alameda County prosecutor, trial judge, and First District Court of Appeal justice.