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Damien Echols
Damien Echols, born 1974, is an American writer and member of the West Memphis Three, convicted 1994 of three child murders and sentenced to death, released in 2011 under an Alford plea after DNA testing excluded him.
Damnatio ad bestias
Damnatio ad bestias, Roman capital punishment by wild animals in the amphitheater, also called condemnation to the beasts. Applied to coiners, murderers, traitors, and Christians; not open to pardon; evidenced by York lion-bite skeleton and Perge terracottas.
Damnum iniuria datum
Damnum iniuria datum is the Roman-law delict of wrongful damage to property, created by the lex Aquilia of about 287 BCE and ancestor of civil-law tortious liability.
Damon R. Leichty
Damon R. Leichty, born 1971, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Indiana since 2019, appointed by President Trump.
Dan A. Polster
Dan A. Polster (born 1951) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Ohio since 1998, appointed by President Clinton.
Dan Markel
Dan Markel, also Daniel Markel, was a Florida State University criminal law professor known for retributivism scholarship, murdered in 2014 in a murder-for-hire plot by his ex-wife's Adelson family; five convictions followed, and Florida's Markel Act bears his name.
Dan Newlin
Dan Newlin (Daniel James Newlin) is an Orlando, Florida personal injury lawyer and founder of Dan Newlin Injury Attorneys, a former Orange County sheriff's detective known for a $100 million verdict and for Trump's 2024 U.S. Ambassador to Colombia nomination, which was returned and withdrawn.
Dan Rayfield
Dan Rayfield is an American attorney and Democrat who became Attorney General of Oregon in 2024 after a decade in the legislature, elected Speaker of the House in 2022.
Dan Saunders ATM glitch
Dan Saunders, a bartender from Wangaratta, exploited a 2011 flaw in the National Australia Bank ATM system, withdrawing $1.6 million over four and a half months.
Dana Ewell
Dana James Ewell, Fresno heir convicted of hiring college friend Joel Radovcich to murder his parents Dale and Glee and sister Tiffany in 1992 for an $8 million estate; both sentenced to life without parole in 1998.
Dana L. Christensen
Dana Lewis Christensen, born 1951, is an American jurist who served as chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Montana from 2013 to 2020.
Dana M. Douglas
Dana M. Douglas, born 1975 in New Orleans, is a United States circuit judge on the Fifth Circuit since 2022 and the first woman of color to serve on that court.
Dana M. Sabraw
Dana M. Sabraw, also known as Dana Makoto Sabraw, is an American jurist serving as a federal district judge in San Diego since 2003, appointed by President George W. Bush.
Dana Nessel
Dana Nessel, Michigan's 54th attorney general (Democrat, term-limited), civil rights attorney in DeBoer v. Snyder; secured $1.6B opioid settlements, sued Enbridge Line 5 and PFAS makers, charged 2020 false electors.
Dana Tippin Cutler
Dana Tippin Cutler, Kansas City trial lawyer, first woman of color elected president of The Missouri Bar (2016), partner at James W. Tippin & Associates, and co-judge on Cutlers Court.
Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera
Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera, alias "La Quica", reputed Medellín Cartel hitman under Pablo Escobar; convicted in Brooklyn in 1994 for the Avianca Flight 203 bombing, serving ten consecutive life sentences in California while claiming innocence.
Daniel A. Bress
Daniel A. Bress is an American jurist serving as a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2019, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Daniel Blank
Daniel Joseph Blank (born 1962) is a Louisiana serial killer who confessed to six River Parishes home-invasion murders in 1996-97; distinct from Daniel Arthur Blank of the Zizians.
Daniel Camargo Barbosa
Daniel Camargo Barbosa (1930–1994), "El Sádico del Chanquito," a Colombian serial killer and rapist who murdered girls in Colombia and Ecuador; escaped Gorgona prison in 1984, confessed 71 Ecuadorian killings, drew Ecuador's 16-year maximum sentence, and was killed in prison by a victim's relative.
Daniel D. Crabtree
Daniel Dale Crabtree, born 1956, is a senior judge on the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2014 and known for overseeing the EpiPen antitrust litigation.
Daniel D. Domenico
Daniel Desmond Domenico, born 1972, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Colorado since 2019 and its chief judge since 2026.
Daniel G. MacMartin
Daniel George MacMartin (1844–1923) was a Perth, Ontario mining engineer and Ontario's commissioner for Treaty 9 (James Bay Treaty) in 1905. His 1905 diary, held at Queen's University Archives, records oral hunting and fishing promises now central to Treaty 9 litigation.
Daniel Holtzclaw
Daniel Ken Holtzclaw (born 1986), former Oklahoma City police officer convicted December 2015 on 18 of 36 counts of rape and sexual assault against eight Black women, sentenced to 263 years; appeals affirmed 2019, certiorari denied 2020.
Daniel J. P. Calabretta
Daniel J. P. Calabretta is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of California since 2023, appointed by President Biden.
Daniel Kinahan
Daniel Joseph Kinahan (born 1977) is an Irish alleged crime boss, OFAC-sanctioned leader of the Kinahan Organized Crime Group, ex-MTK Global boxing figure, arrested in Dubai in April 2026 and extradited to Ireland in August 2026.
Daniel L. Hovland
Daniel L. Hovland is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of North Dakota, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002.
Daniel Lewis Lee
Daniel Lewis Lee, executed July 14, 2020 at USP Terre Haute, was the first federal execution since 2003. He was sentenced to death for the 1996 white-supremacist robbery-murders of an Arkansas family of three.
Daniel M. Traynor
Daniel M. Traynor, born 1970 in Devils Lake, North Dakota, is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since 2026.
Daniel O'Connell
Daniel O'Connell (1775–1847), 'the Liberator', Irish barrister and nationalist leader who won Catholic Emancipation in 1829 via the Catholic Association and Clare by-election, sat as first Catholic MP in modern times, and led the Repeal campaign until 1847.
Daniel P. Collins
Daniel P. Collins, born 1963 in Brooklyn, is a United States circuit judge on the Ninth Circuit, appointed by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate in 2019.