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Donald Harvey
Donald Harvey (1952-2017), American hospital orderly nicknamed the Angel of Death, pleaded guilty to 37 patient murders in Ohio and Kentucky hospitals using cyanide, arsenic, suffocation, and respirator sabotage; claimed up to 87 victims; beaten to death in prison in 2017.
Donald Henry Gaskins
Donald Henry Gaskins, known as "Pee Wee," was an American serial killer from South Carolina who pleaded guilty to eight murders and claimed about one hundred victims.
Donald J. Trump Foundation
The Donald J. Trump Foundation was Donald Trump's small private grant-making New York charity, run by his family and Allen Weisselberg, dissolved after a 2018 New York attorney general lawsuit over self-dealing and campaign misuse.
Donald L. Graham
Donald L. Graham, born 1948 in Salisbury, North Carolina, is a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of Florida, appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1991.
Donald M. Middlebrooks
Donald M. Middlebrooks, born 1946 in Orlando, Florida, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida, appointed by President Clinton in 1997.
Donald Neilson
Donald Neilson (1936-2011), the Black Panther, English armed robber who murdered three sub-postmasters in 1974, kidnapped and killed heiress Lesley Whittle in 1975, and died in prison.
Donald Trump Supreme Court candidates
Donald Trump Supreme Court candidates: the publicly released shortlists begun in May 2016 (11 names, later 21, pledged as the only source of picks) that yielded the confirmed nominees Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, expanded in September 2020 with 20 names including three senators.
Donald W. Molloy
Donald W. Molloy (born 1946) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Montana since 1996; appointed by Bill Clinton, he was chief judge from 2001 to 2008.
Donetta W. Ambrose
Donetta W. Ambrose, born 1945 in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, served as a US district judge for Western Pennsylvania from 1993, appointed by President Clinton, and was the court's first woman chief judge.
Donkey flight
Donkey flight, or dunki (Punjabi for hopping place to place), is an illegal immigration method using multi-stop backdoor routes to the US, UK, and Canada, run by agents charging tens of lakhs of rupees, highlighted by the 2023 Legend Airlines case in France.
Donna Hylton
Donna Hylton (born 1964), Jamaican-American activist and author of A Little Piece of Light, served 27 years at Bedford Hills for the 1985 Vigliarolo kidnapping-murder, was paroled in 2012, and now advocates for incarcerated women.
Donner Party
Donner Party (Donner–Reed Party), an 1846 California-bound wagon train of about 80 pioneers stranded by Sierra Nevada snowstorms in winter 1846-47; about half died, survivors resorted to cannibalism, and archaeology at Alder Creek found no human bone.
Donnie Andrews
Donnie Andrews, born Larry Donnell Andrews (1954–2012), was a Baltimore stick-up artist and convicted murderer who inspired The Wire's Omar Little and later founded the anti-violence charity Why Murder?.
Donoghue v Stevenson
Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562, the Paisley snail case, is the House of Lords decision establishing the neighbour principle and the modern tort of negligence, holding a ginger beer manufacturer owed a duty of care to a consumer without contract.
Donovan W. Frank
Donovan W. Frank (born 1951) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
Doodler
The Doodler, also called the Doodler Killer, is an unidentified San Francisco serial killer who murdered at least six gay men in 1974-1975 after sketching victims in gay bars; a 1976 suspect was never charged and the case remains open.
Dora L. Irizarry
Dora L. Irizarry is an American jurist, a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York appointed by George W. Bush in 2004.
Doris L. Pryor
Doris Lenea Pryor, born in 1977, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Seventh Circuit since 2022, nominated by President Biden.
Doris Tate
Doris Tate, mother of murdered actress Sharon Tate, was a California victims' rights activist who helped pass the 1982 victim impact statement law, campaigned against Manson family paroles, and founded the Doris Tate Crime Victims Bureau before her 1992 death.
Dorothea Puente
Dorothea Puente, also Dorothea Helen Grey, the "Death House Landlady," ran a Sacramento boarding house at 1426 F Street; convicted 1993 of murdering three tenants for their benefit checks, died in prison 2011.
Dorothy Roberts
Dorothy Roberts is an American legal scholar and 2024 MacArthur Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania whose work on race, reproductive rights, and child welfare shaped activism and policy.
Dorothy W. Nelson
Dorothy W. Nelson, also known as Dorothy Wright Nelson, is an American jurist on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1979.
Double jeopardy
Double jeopardy, or ne bis in idem, bars a second prosecution or punishment for the same offense after acquittal or conviction; covers attachment, Blockburger, mistrials, dual sovereignty, and Erlinger (2024).
Double Jeopardy Clause
The Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment bars repeat trials or punishments for the same offense; incorporated against states in Benton v. Maryland (1969), limited by the dual sovereignty doctrine and the Blockburger same-elements test.
Double taxation
Double taxation, or dual taxation, arises when two or more States levy similar taxes on the same taxpayer, the same income, and the same period.
Doug Clark (serial killer)
Douglas Daniel Clark, half of the 'Sunset Strip Killers' duo with Carol Bundy, was convicted of six 1980 Los Angeles murders and sentenced to six consecutive death terms; he died on San Quentin's death row in 2023.
Douglas H. Ginsburg
Douglas H. Ginsburg, also known as Douglas Howard Ginsburg, is a senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, appointed by Reagan in 1986.
Douglas L. Rayes
Douglas L. Rayes, born 1952 in Globe, Arizona, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona since 2024.
Douglas Moylan
Douglas Moylan is an American politician and the Attorney General of Guam since January 2023, previously holding the office from 2003 as the territory's first elected attorney general.
Douglas P. Woodlock
Douglas P. Woodlock, also known as Douglas Preston Woodlock, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Massachusetts since 1986, appointed by President Ronald Reagan.