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Desmond Noonan
Desmond "Dessie" Noonan, Manchester gangland fixer of the Cheetham Hill Noonan crime family, ex-Hacienda bouncer, stabbed to death in Chorlton in March 2005 days before Donal MacIntyre's Channel 5 documentary Gangster aired.
Detention of Everlee Wihongi
Detention of Everlee Wihongi: 2026 ICE custody of a New Zealand citizen and US green card holder held at Los Angeles airport over a 2014 Wisconsin cannabis conviction; the conviction was vacated and she was later released after criticism of New Zealand's consular response.
Detention of Liam Conejo Ramos
January 20, 2026 ICE detention of five-year-old Ecuadorian Liam Conejo Ramos (Liam Ramos) and father Adrian Conejo Arias in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, during Operation Metro Surge; Dilley detention, court-ordered release, and denied asylum claim.
Detention of Mahmoud Khalil
Detention of Mahmoud Khalil: the March 8, 2025 ICE arrest of the Palestinian Columbia graduate and lawful permanent resident, his 104-day detention in Jena, Louisiana, the Rubio foreign-policy deportation charge, and the resulting habeas and Third Circuit litigation.
Detention of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig
The 'Two Michaels': Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, detained by China on December 10, 2018 in apparent retaliation for Meng Wanzhou's arrest, held 1,019 days, and released September 24, 2021, the day Meng's extradition case was dropped.
Detention of Rümeysa Öztürk
Detention of Rümeysa Öztürk: Turkish Tufts PhD student and Fulbright scholar arrested by ICE March 25, 2025 in Somerville over a Gaza op-ed, held six weeks in Louisiana, released by court order May 9, 2025.
Detroit Partnership
The Detroit Partnership is Detroit, Michigan's Italian-American La Cosa Nostra family, also called the Tocco–Zerilli crime family after its intermarried ruling families; known for Prohibition-era Purple Gang roots, gambling and extortion rackets, and the 1996 GAMTAX indictment of 17 members including boss Jack Tocco.
Deval Patrick
Deval Laurdine Patrick (born 1956) is an American lawyer and Democratic politician, 71st governor of Massachusetts (2007-2015), the state's first Black governor, earlier Clinton's Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, later Bain Capital Double Impact founder and 2020 presidential candidate.
Devil's Island
Devil's Island (Île du Diable), smallest of the Îles du Salut about 11 km off Kourou, French Guiana, was a French convict camp (1852–1946) for political prisoners, held Alfred Dreyfus (1895–1899), and names the wider penal colony in English.
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three is Mara Leveritt's 2002 Atria book on the 1993 West Memphis child murders, the satanic-panic trial, and the 1994 convictions, later adapted into Atom Egoyan's 2013 film.
Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, known as D.Y. Chandrachud, is an Indian jurist who served as the 50th Chief Justice of India from November 2022 until his retirement in 2024.
Dhananjoy Chatterjee
Dhananjoy Chatterjee (Dhana), Indian security guard convicted of the 1990 rape-murder of Hetal Parekh in Kolkata; hanged 14 August 2004, first Indian execution since 1997, on contested circumstantial evidence with no DNA testing.
Dharmasthala mass burial case
The Dharmasthala mass burial case, also called the Dharmasthala mass grave, is a 2025 criminal investigation in Karnataka, India, opened after a former sanitation worker alleged forced secret burials.
Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a Côte d'Ivoire body created in 2011 to foster reconciliation after the post-election crisis that killed at least 3,000 people.
Diana J. G. Motz
Diana J. G. Motz, born Diana Jane Gribbon Motz in 1943, is an American jurist and senior judge of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Diana Saldaña
Diana Saldaña, born 1971, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Texas, sitting in Laredo since 2011 after serving as a magistrate judge and federal prosecutor.
Diane Downs
Diane Downs (Elizabeth Diane Downs), American convicted murderer who shot her three children near Springfield, Oregon, in May 1983, killing Cheryl; convicted 1984, sentenced to life, denied parole four times, appeals and DNA testing requests pending.
Diane Gujarati
Diane Gujarati, born 1969 in New York, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York since 2020.
Diane J. Humetewa
Diane Joyce Humetewa, born 1964, is a United States district judge for the District of Arizona, appointed by President Obama in 2014 as the first female Native American federal judge.
Diane S. Sykes
Diane S. Sykes, born in 1957, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 2025.
Diane Zamora
Diane Michelle Zamora, a former US Naval Academy midshipman, was convicted of capital murder in 1998 for helping kill 16-year-old Adrianne Jones in Mansfield, Texas, in 1995.
Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain
Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, born 1937 in New York, is an American judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by Reagan in 1986 and on senior status since 2016.
Dick Rowland
Dick Rowland (born c. 1902, birth name Jimmie Jones, dubbed "Diamond Dick" by Tulsa's white press) was a Black Tulsa shoe shiner whose 1921 false arrest for assaulting elevator operator Sarah Page sparked the Tulsa Race Massacre.
Dick Turpin
Dick Turpin (Richard Turpin, bap. 1705, d. 1739) was an English highwayman, housebreaker, and horse thief hanged at York under the alias John Palmer; the Black Bess ride to York legend comes from Ainsworth's 1834 novel Rookwood.
Didrik Nyholm
Didrik Nyholm was a Danish jurist who served 25 years on the Mixed Courts of Egypt and then, from 1921 to 1931, as a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice.
Diego de Avendaño
Diego de Avendaño (1594–1688) was a Spanish Jesuit jurist and theologian who taught in Lima and wrote the six-tome Thesaurus Indicus on conscience in Spanish American affairs.
Diego Murillo Bejarano
Diego Murillo Bejarano (Don Berna, born 1961) is a Colombian ex-paramilitary commander of the AUC's Cacique Nutibara bloc and the Oficina de Envigado, extradited to the US in 2008 and serving a 31-year drug sentence.
Digital assets in estate administration
Digital assets in estate administration are the online accounts, cryptocurrency, and electronic property that executors must locate, access, value, and distribute when an account holder dies.
Digital Markets Act
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a 2022 European Union regulation imposing obligations and prohibitions on large online platforms designated as gatekeepers, with fines up to 10% of worldwide turnover.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Public Law 105-304 (1998), implements the WIPO Copyright Treaty and WPPT; it bans DRM circumvention under Section 1201 and grants online service providers Section 512 takedown safe harbors.