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Charles R. Norgle, Sr.
Charles R. Norgle, Sr., born Charles Ronald Norgle, Sr. in 1937, is an American jurist who served as a federal district judge in Illinois from 1984 to 2022.
Charles R. Simpson III
Charles R. Simpson III is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in Kentucky since 2013, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1986.
Charles R. Wilson
Charles R. Wilson (born 1954) is an American judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1999.
Charles Ray Crawford
Charles Ray Crawford, Mississippi death row inmate executed October 15, 2025, for the 1993 kidnapping, rape, and murder of Kristy Ray; his McCoy v. Louisiana claim was denied by the Supreme Court.
Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 36 U.S. 420 (1837), also called Proprietors of Charles River Bridge v. Proprietors of Warren Bridge, a Supreme Court Contract Clause case: Taney held charters grant nothing by implication, allowing a competing free bridge.
Charles Rodman Campbell
Charles Rodman Campbell, murderer executed by hanging in Washington on May 27, 1994, for the 1982 Clearview killings of Renae Wicklund, her daughter Shannah, and Barbara Hendrickson; his case was Washington's last judicial hanging.
Charles S. Haight, Jr.
Charles S. Haight, Jr., also known as Charles Sherman Haight, Jr., is an American jurist and senior federal district judge in New York, appointed in 1976.
Charles Sabini
Charles "Darby" Sabini (1888–1951), real name Ottavio Sabini, led the Anglo-Italian Sabini gang of Clerkenwell's Little Italy, dominating London racecourse protection rackets in the 1920s before internment in 1940.
Charles Schmid
Charles Schmid (Charles Howard Schmid Jr., 1942–1975), the "Pied Piper of Tucson", was an American murderer who killed three teenage girls near Tucson, Arizona, in 1964–1965, was sentenced to death in 1966, and died after a 1975 inmate stabbing.
Charles Sobhraj
Charles Sobhraj, "The Serpent" and "Bikini Killer", French serial killer born 1944 in Saigon; drugged and robbed Western backpackers on the 1970s Hippie Trail, convicted of murder in India and Nepal, freed from Nepal in December 2022 and deported to France.
Charles Starkweather
Charles Starkweather (1938-1959), Lincoln, Nebraska spree killer who with girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate murdered 11 people in Nebraska and Wyoming in 1957-58; executed in the electric chair June 25, 1959.
Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner (1811-1874), Massachusetts senator and Radical Republican abolitionist, caned on the Senate floor in 1856 after his Crime Against Kansas speech; later championed the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles VI, also known as Karl VI, was Holy Roman emperor from 1711 to 1740, the last male Habsburg, and promulgated the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713.
Charles-Henri Sanson
Charles-Henri Sanson (1739-1806), "Sanson le Grand", royal executioner of Paris under Louis XV and Louis XVI, from the hereditary Sanson dynasty begun 1688; executed 2,918 people including Louis XVI, resigned 1795.
Charlie Bowdre
Charlie Bowdre (1848-1880), also Charles Meriwether Bowdre, was a Lincoln County War Regulator and cowboy who rode with Billy the Kid; he was shot dead by Pat Garrett's posse at Stinking Springs on December 23, 1880, and is buried beside Tom O'Folliard at Fort Sumner.
Charlie Brandt
Carl "Charlie" Brandt (1957–2004), American suspected serial killer; killed his pregnant mother in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1971 at 13, murdered wife Teri and niece Michelle Jones in Florida in 2004 before suicide; 1989 Perisho murder attributed to him.
Charlie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton
Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton (born 1951), Labour peer, barrister, and Tony Blair's friend; Solicitor General 1997–98, Millennium Dome minister, and Lord Chancellor who steered the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.
Charlie Gard case
Charlie Gard case: 2017 UK legal dispute over Great Ormond Street infant with MDDS (RRM2B); parents' experimental-treatment bid failed in High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, and ECHR; he died 28 July 2017.
Charlotte Merz
Charlotte Merz, born 1961 in Saarland, is a German judge and director of the Amtsgericht Arnsberg specializing in family law, CDU member, and wife of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, married since 1981 with three children.
Charlotte N. Sweeney
Charlotte N. Sweeney, also known as Charlotte Noelle Sweeney, is an American jurist who has served as a United States district judge for the District of Colorado since 2022.
Charter
Charter: in international law, a formal, solemn treaty title, typically the constituent instrument of an organization (UN Charter 1945, OAS Charter 1952, ASEAN Charter 2007); the name carries no distinct legal effect under the Vienna Convention.
Charter of the Organization of American States
The Charter of the Organization of American States, adopted at Bogotá on April 30, 1948, is the OAS's founding treaty. It sets purposes of peace, representative democracy and nonintervention, and was amended by the Protocols of Buenos Aires and Cartagena.
Charter of the United Nations
The Charter of the United Nations, also known as the UN Charter, is the 1945 treaty that established the United Nations, binding its 193 member states under international law.
Chase and Waite Courts (1864–1888)
The Chase and Waite Courts were consecutive eras of the US Supreme Court under Chief Justices Salmon Chase (1864–1873) and Morrison Waite (1874–1888), spanning Reconstruction and the first interpretations of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.
Chase Court
The Chase Court (1864-1873) was the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, spanning Reconstruction; known for Ex parte Milligan, Hepburn v. Griswold, the Slaughterhouse Cases, and the Johnson impeachment trial.
Chase Iron Eyes
Chase Iron Eyes is a Lakota attorney and activist, executive director of the Lakota People's Law Project, co-founder of LastRealIndians.com, 2016 Democratic candidate for North Dakota's House seat, and a Dakota Access Pipeline protest figure arrested in February 2017.
Chatrie v. United States
Chatrie v. United States, 609 U.S. _ (2026), a 6-3 Supreme Court decision by Justice Kagan holding that obtaining Google Location History via a geofence warrant is a Fourth Amendment search, limiting the third-party doctrine; decided from a 2019 Virginia credit-union robbery.
Check kiting
Check kiting: bank fraud cycling insufficient-funds checks between two or more accounts to exploit the float; prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. §1344, up to 30 years and $1,000,000 fine.
Chee Gaik Yap rape and murder
Chee Gaik Yap rape and murder: January 2006 killing of a 25-year-old marketing executive in Sungai Petani, Kedah. Shahril Jaafar, acquitted in 2013, was convicted in 2015 and remains on death row after the 2024 Federal Court re-sentencing review failed.
Chefoo Convention
The Chefoo Convention, also known as the Yantai Convention, was an agreement between Great Britain and Qing China signed at Chefoo in 1876 by Thomas Wade and Li Hongzhang.