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David O. Nuffer
David O. Nuffer, also known as David Ogden Nuffer, is an American jurist and senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah.
David Owen Brooks
David Owen Brooks (born 1955, died 2020) was a teenage accomplice of Houston serial killer Dean Corll in the 1970-73 Houston Mass Murders, luring victims for $10-$200 each; convicted of one murder, he served 45 years of a life sentence before dying of COVID-19 in prison.
David Parker Ray
David Parker Ray (November 6, 1939 – May 28, 2002), the "Toy-Box Killer", was a New Mexico kidnapper and torturer arrested in 1999 near Elephant Butte, sentenced to over 223 years, never convicted of murder, and died in prison in 2002.
David R. Hansen
David Rasmussen Hansen, born 1938 in Exira, Iowa, is an American jurist and senior judge of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, elevated in 1991.
David R. Stras
David R. Stras, born David Ryan Stras in 1974, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Eighth Circuit since 2018.
David S. Cercone
David Stewart Cercone, born 1952 in Pittsburgh, is a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002.
David S. Leibowitz
David S. Leibowitz, born David Seymour Leibowitz, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida since 2024.
David S. Morales
David S. Morales, born 1968 in Edinburg, Texas, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Texas since 2019.
David Sam
David Sam, born in 1933, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Utah, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1985.
David Souter
David Hackett Souter (1939-2025), U.S. Supreme Court associate justice 1990-2009, appointed by George H.W. Bush from New Hampshire; co-authored Planned Parenthood v. Casey, dissented in Bush v. Gore, retired 2009.
David W. Dugan
David Wayne Dugan is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Illinois since 2020, appointed by President Trump.
David W. McKeague
David W. McKeague is an American jurist and senior judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2005.
David Yaras
David Yaras (Dave Yaras), Chicago Outfit figure the FBI assessed as the Chicago family's chief representative in Miami; Rogers Park gambling boss; charged with murder, robbery, extortion, never convicted; died of a heart attack playing golf, Miami, January 1974.
Dawes Act
Dawes Act (General Allotment Act, 1887), US law by Sen. Henry Dawes allotting reservation lands in severalty to individual Native Americans, selling "surplus" to settlers; 25-year trust; ~90 million acres lost by 1934.
Dawood Ibrahim (दाऊद इब्राहिम)
Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar (दाऊद इब्राहिम), born 1955, is the Indian fugitive boss of the crime syndicate D Company, prime accused in the 1993 Mumbai bombings that killed 257, a US-designated global terrorist, and an INTERPOL Red Notice subject believed to be in Pakistan.
Dāyabhāga (दायभाग)
Dāyabhāga (दायभाग) is Jīmūtavāhana's 12th-century Sanskrit digest founding the Bengal school of Hindu law, governing Bengal and Assam, with inheritance by religious efficacy and ownership arising only at the owner's death, unlike the Mitākṣarā.
De facto
De facto, Latin "in fact", describes what exists in practice without formal legal recognition, contrasted with de jure; covers de facto officers, governments, recognition, and measured de jure/de facto gaps.
De facto and psychological parents
A de facto parent, also called a psychological parent or parent by estoppel, is someone a court treats as a parent based on a functional caregiving relationship rather than biology, adoption, or marriage.
De minimis
De minimis, from the Latin maxim de minimis non curat lex, is the legal principle that the law does not concern itself with trifles, applied in copyright, tax, criminal, and competition law.
Dead Rabbits
Dead Rabbits: name given to an Irish Five Points street-fighting group of 1850s New York, rivals of the Bowery Boys, famous for the July 1857 riot; historians dispute whether the gang existed under that name.
Dean Corll
Dean Arnold Corll, the "Candy Man," was a Houston-area serial killer who, with accomplices Henley and Brooks, murdered at least 27 to 29 boys from 1970 to 1973 until Henley killed him in August 1973.
Dean O'Banion
Dean O'Banion (Dion, Deanie), 1892-1924, Irish-American boss of Chicago's North Side Gang, bootlegging rival of Torrio and Capone; murdered November 10, 1924, in his State Street flower shop, feeding the Beer Wars.
Dean Whipple
Dean Whipple (born 1938) is an American jurist and senior United States district judge for the Western District of Missouri, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1987.
DeAndrea G. Benjamin
DeAndrea G. Benjamin, also known as DeAndrea Gist Benjamin, is an American jurist on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President Biden in 2023.
Dear Boss letter
Dear Boss letter: 1888 letter to London's Central News Agency, first signed "Jack the Ripper", claiming the Annie Chapman murder; widely judged a journalist's hoax, it gave the Whitechapel killer his enduring name.
Death by boiling
Death by boiling: execution by immersion in boiling water or oil. Known chiefly from Henry VIII's 1531 Acte for Poysoning; victims included Richard Roose and Margaret Davy at Smithfield; repealed 1547.
Death by burning
Death by burning, or burning at the stake, is an execution method historically used for heresy, witchcraft, and treason, codified in laws such as the 1530 Constitutio Criminalis Carolina and now banned under international human rights law.
Death by sawing
Death by sawing: a historical execution method in which a condemned person was cut in half with a saw, often suspended upside down; reported from antiquity and medieval Europe, declined with Enlightenment reforms.
Death certificate
Death certificate: official vital-records document stating a person's identity, fact of death, cause, and manner of death; also called medical certificate of cause of death (MCCD), source of mortality statistics.
Death of Amber Thurman
Amber Nicole Thurman, a 28-year-old Georgia medical assistant, died in August 2022 after a 20-hour hospital delay of a D&C for sepsis from abortion pills; the state committee ruled her death preventable under Georgia's six-week abortion ban.