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Douglas R. Cole
Douglas R. Cole, born Douglas Russell Cole in 1964, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Ohio, nominated by President Trump in 2019.
Douglas Treaties
Douglas Treaties (Vancouver Island Treaties): fourteen 1850–1854 land agreements between James Douglas of the Hudson's Bay Company and Vancouver Island First Nations, covering about 927 km² around Victoria, Saanich, Sooke, Nanaimo, and Port Hardy.
Dower
Mahr, also known as dower, is an obligatory payment of money or property that a husband must give his wife as part of an Islamic marriage contract.
Dowry system in India
The dowry system in India, known locally as Dahhej or Jahez, transfers wealth from the bride's family to the groom, illegal since 1961 but widespread.
Doxbin (darknet)
Doxbin (darknet), also called the Doxbin, is the biggest public doxing website, historically on Tor, hosting over 176,000 doxes with personal data, tied to extortion, swatting, and far-right operators, with mostly denied removal requests.
Doxing
Doxing, also spelled doxxing, is the deliberate public release of personal information like addresses and phone numbers to shame or menace someone, a term from 1990s hacker culture.
DPS MMS scandal
DPS MMS scandal: 2004 Delhi Public School cellphone video case, also called DPS Dhamaka, in which an explicit clip of two underage students spread by MMS and was listed on Bazee.com, triggering arrests including CEO Avnish Bajaj and shaping India's Section 66E IT Act.
Draco (Δράκων) (legislator)
Draco (Δράκων), Athenian lawgiver of c. 624–621 BCE, credited with Athens' first written law code; only his homicide law (republished 409/8 BCE) is securely attested, and 'Draconian' harshness is largely later tradition.
Draconian constitution
Draconian constitution: the written code of laws attributed to the Athenian lawgiver Draco, issued c. 621/620 BCE and famous for capital punishment of nearly all offenses; only his homicide law survived Solon's repeal.
Draft United Nations resolution on Israeli settlements, 2011
The draft United Nations resolution on Israeli settlements, circulated in 2011 as S/2011/24, would have deemed settlements illegal and demanded an immediate halt; the United States vetoed it, 14 to 1.
Dragnet (franchise)
Dragnet is Jack Webb's American police procedural franchise about LAPD detectives, begun on radio in 1949 and on TV in 1952, starring Joe Friday, with revivals in 1967, 1987, 1989, and 2003.
Drake v Minister for Immigration & Ethnic Affairs
Drake v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1979) 46 FLR 409 is a Full Federal Court of Australia case defining AAT merits review: the tribunal must reach the correct or preferable decision independently, not merely apply ministerial policy.
Dream Market
Dream Market was an English-language Tor darknet marketplace launched 15 November 2013, the largest after AlphaBay's takedown, accepting BTC, BCH, and XMR, which closed voluntarily in March 2019 citing DDoS extortion, unlike raided markets such as Silk Road, AlphaBay, and Hansa.
Dream Team (law)
The Dream Team was the high-profile defense lawyer group assembled for O.J. Simpson's 1995 murder trial, led by Johnnie Cochran with Robert Shapiro, F. Lee Bailey, Alan Dershowitz, Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, and Robert Kardashian.
Dred Scott
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) was the U.S. Supreme Court's 7-2 ruling, written by Chief Justice Taney, that Black people were not U.S. citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in federal territories, voiding the Missouri Compromise; overturned by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) was the Supreme Court decision, 7-2 under Chief Justice Taney, holding that enslaved Black people were not U.S. citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in federal territories; overturned by the 13th and 14th Amendments.
Drew B. Tipton
Drew B. Tipton, born Drew Barnett Tipton in 1967, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Texas, nominated by President Trump and confirmed in 2020.
Drew Peterson
Drew Peterson, former Bolingbrook, Illinois police sergeant, convicted in 2012 of the first-degree murder of third wife Kathleen Savio, sentenced to 38 years; case known for Drew's Law hearsay statute; fourth wife Stacy Peterson missing since 2007.
Drew Wrigley
Drew Wrigley is an American Republican politician and attorney serving as Attorney General of North Dakota, elected in 2022 after serving as lieutenant governor from 2010 to 2016.
Drive-by shooting
Drive-by shooting: firing a gun from a motor vehicle at people or property outside it, associated with US gang violence; less lethal than other shootings (41% lower fatality in LA data), criminalized federally since 1994.
Drug barons of Colombia
The drug barons of Colombia, also known as Colombian drug barons, headed the Medellín and Cali cartels that dominated cocaine trafficking from the late 1970s through the 1990s.
Drug cartel
Drug cartel: term coined in the 1980s for Colombia's Medellín and Cali syndicates, now applied chiefly to Mexican DTOs such as Sinaloa and CJNG; large criminal organizations trafficking cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana.
Drug lord
Drug lord (also kingpin): leader of a drug trafficking organization controlling production, smuggling, distribution, and finances. Examples include El Chapo and El Mencho; the DEA's kingpin strategy targets them, with evidence of violence increases after captures.
Dublin Regulation
Dublin Regulation (Dublin III, Regulation (EU) No 604/2013) was the EU rule assigning each asylum application to one responsible Member State, mainly the country of first entry; adopted 2013, in force 2014, replaced by the Asylum and Migration Management Regulation in 2026.
Dubois brothers
Dubois brothers (frères Dubois), nine siblings from Saint-Henri, Montreal, who ran Quebec's dominant criminal gang from the 1950s to the 1980s; rivals of the McSween gang and Devil's Disciples, undone by the televised 1975-1976 CECO organized crime inquiry.
Duchy of Lucca
Duchy of Lucca (Ducato di Lucca), a Bourbon-ruled Italian state 1817–1847, successor to the Republic of Lucca; assigned to Maria Luisa di Borbone by the Congress of Vienna and ceded to Tuscany in 1847.
Ducking stool
Ducking stool, also called cucking stool, an early modern English and colonial American punishment chair on a beam used to duck women convicted as common scolds into water, from about 1550 to the last recorded use in 1809.
Due process
Due process of law is a US constitutional guarantee in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments that government may not deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property unfairly.
Due Process Clause
The Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments bars depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; it grounds procedural due process, incorporation, and contested substantive due process doctrine.
Dunbar Armored robbery
Dunbar Armored robbery: $18.9 million armed takeover of the Dunbar Armored depot in Los Angeles on September 13, 1997, led by fired guard Allen Pace III; largest U.S. cash armed robbery until the 2024 GardaWorld heist.