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- ...that two of the four judges depicted in The Bench (pictured), a 1758 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Hogarth, were half asleep in court?
- ...that before the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Jackson v. Indiana, an incompetent criminal defendant could be involuntarily confined indefinitely (as if given a life sentence) without a trial or a conviction?
- ...that before becoming the Judge Advocate General of the United States Navy, Thomas Leigh Gatch was awarded two Navy Crosses?
- ...that the permanent headquarters of the United States Department of Justice (pictured) was built 65 years after the creation of the department—and 146 years after the creation of the post of Attorney General?
- ...that "bunchers" are criminals involved in kidnapping pets from residences, trapping stray animals illegally, and selling them to laboratories for animal testing purposes?
- ...that Ryan Holle is serving a life prison sentence without the possibility of parole for letting his roommate borrow his car that was then used in a crime?
- ...that the massacre in Vinnytsia by the Soviet secret police NKVD in the purges of 1937-1938 (memorial pictured) was investigated in 1943 during the German invasion of Ukraine and used in the propaganda war against the Soviet Union?
- ...that the Zentrale Stelle (Central Office) was established in 1958 by the West German government to investigate war crimes committed outside Germany by Nazi forces?
- ...that Robert G. Pugh and his son, Robert, Jr., were the first father-son team to present oral arguments together before the United States Supreme Court?
- ...that the Solomon Courthouse (pictured) has twice served as a post office, and was the setting for a courtroom scene in The Hunted?
- ...that in 1582 Ursula Kemp confessed to using familiar spirits to kill her neighbours and was later hanged for witchcraft?
- ...that the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Yasui v. United States and its companion case Hirabayashi v. United States that curfews for a minority group were constitutional during war time?
- ...that Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King (Robert F. Kennedy pictured) is believed to have prevented riots from breaking out in Indianapolis?
- ...that a report by the Judicial Commission of New South Wales almost led to a New South Wales judge being removed from office because of the time delays in giving decisions?
- ...that in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, when Dorothy Talbye fell into despair with fits of violence in 1638, she was excommunicated from the church, bound and chained to a post, publicly whipped and finally, after murdering her daughter, hanged?
Portal:Criminal justice/DYK/6 George Pelecanos
- ...that The Big Blowdown, a crime novel by American author George Pelecanos (pictured), was the recipient of the International Crime Novel of the Year award in France, Germany and Japan?
- ...that Westmoreland v. CBS demonstrated that a public figure cannot win a libel suit in the United States unless reckless and defamatory statements are evidence of actual malice?
- ...that famous tenor Antonio Giuglini used to jaywalk through traffic on London's Brompton Road while flying his kite?
- ...that the Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse (pictured) is an Art Deco skyscraper adorned with artwork by Lee Lawrie, Carl Milles, John W. Norton, and Albert Stewart?
- ...that despite $170m spent on security, Australian comedy group The Chaser managed to enter the restricted zone of the 2007 APEC Summit in a fake motorcade?
- ...that the half-brother of William the Conqueror, Bishop Odo of Bayeux, was successfully tried for defrauding the Archbishop of Canterbury of church property a decade after the Norman Conquest of England?
- ...that the odds of Sir John Eardley Wilmot (pictured), an eminent judge, also having an eminent grandson were calculated in Galton's book Hereditary Genius as 30 to 1 against?
- ...that in Sell v. United States, the Supreme Court decided a dentist was unconstitutionally jailed for eight years without trial for refusing to be medicated with psychiatric drugs?
- ...that the police officer who illegally shot Nathaniel Levi Gaines in 1996 became the third officer from the New York City Police Department to be sentenced for committing a crime while on active duty?
- ...that California's 2007 Santiago Fire (pictured) was started deliberately?
- ...that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Beard v. Banks that it is not unconstitutional to deny newspapers to violent prison inmates, who can use them to start fires and make weapons?
- ...that during the Lithuanian press ban from 1864 to 1904, it was illegal in Lithuania to print, import, distribute, or possess any publications that were written in the Lithuanian language using the Latin alphabet?
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- ...that Abdulameer Yousef Habeeb (pictured) was jailed for his failure to submit to a U.S. Special Registration program from which he was supposed to be exempt?
- ...that Judge Henry Stump of Baltimore's circuit court was the only jurist in the history of Maryland to be removed from the bench by the Maryland General Assembly?
- ...that John Phillips was one of the first judges appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria and that his nickname was "Equity Jack"?
Portal:Criminal justice/DYK/11 John L. Fugh
- ...that John L. Fugh (pictured) was the first Chinese American to be Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army?
- ...that bugged conversations with surgeon-crime boss Giuseppe Guttadauro revealed how the Mafia funded the 2001 election campaign of Sicilian President Salvatore Cuffaro?
- ...that the case of Rice v. Collins concerned a juror who may have "rolled her eyes" under questioning?
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- ...that the Charter Arms Bulldog revolver (pictured) became notorious after it was revealed to be serial killer David Berkowitz's weapon of choice?
- ...that criteria of truth are standards and rules used to judge the accuracy of statements and claims?
- ...that due to backlash from the John Hinckley trial, under US law an expert witness can no longer testify on legal issues such as the insanity defense?
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- ...that seven followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh were convicted for being part of a 1985 assassination plot to murder the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon (courthouse pictured)?
- ...that in Tennard v. Dretke, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it a cruel and unusual punishment to ignore the defendant's mental retardation in sentencing the death penalty?
- ...that scientific jury selection is used by some U.S. attorneys in high-stakes cases?
Portal:Criminal justice/DYK/14 Lulzim Basha with Condoleezza Rice
- ...that the current Foreign Minister of Albania, Lulzim Basha (pictured), used to work for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and helped prepare the file against Slobodan Milosevic?
- ...that intoxication is never recognized as an excuse for crime, but settled insanity due to substance abuse is?
- ...that the United States Supreme Court held in Moyer v. Peabody (1909) that the US government may imprison citizens without probable cause during an insurrection so long as it acts in good faith?
Portal:Criminal justice/DYK/15 Hillsboro Police Department
- ...that the Hillsboro Police (West Precinct pictured) was the first law enforcement agency in Oregon to collect demographic statistics from traffic stops to combat racial profiling?
- ...that Mafia turncoat Baldassare Di Maggio claimed that Cosa Nostra boss Totò Riina respectfully kissed former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti at a meeting?
- ...that a prosecution was started against Benjamin Robinson for starting a school in Findern in 1693?
Portal:Criminal justice/DYK/16 George P. Kane
- ...that George P. Kane (pictured), Marshall of Police in Baltimore, Maryland, was imprisoned in Fort McHenry along with Mayor George William Brown and pro-South members of the city council by the Northern Army during the American Civil War?
- ...that Ron Cole was involved in a violent standoff with Amo Bishop Roden, the wife of former Branch Davidian leader George Roden, at the site of the compound destroyed in the Waco siege?
- ...that former Palermo mayor Vito Ciancimino explained that Italy without bribes would be "as though someone wanted to remove one of the four wheels of a car"?
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- ...that the design for the 1941 Art Moderne Illinois State Police Office in Pontiac (pictured) was also used for the state police headquarters building in Rock Island, Illinois?
- ...that Sholom Schwartzbard was acquitted in the Schwartzbard trial despite pleading guilty to murder, and that the family of his victim was ordered to pay for the cost of the trial?
- ...that former Branch Davidian leader George Roden was shot twice in a gun battle with his rival David Koresh and seven other Branch Davidians, before being evicted from the Mount Carmel Center near Waco?
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- ...that "quickfire" (pictured), a form of arson employed in Scandinavian blood feuds, was punishable by death only if the perpetrator was caught in the act and killed at the scene of the crime?
- ...that the Colombian journalist Diana Turbay was killed while kidnapped by the Medellin Cartel in order to create pressure against the Colombia-USA extradition treaty?
- ...that German nuclear physicist Heinz Barwich had illegal contacts to the Soviet secret police NKVD during Nazi rule, and then spied on the Soviet Union for the West while working in East Germany?
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- ...that Blanca Errázuriz was acquitted of the murder of John de Saulles (both pictured) due to the testimony of Rudolf Valentino, who she had recently divorced?
- ...that Martin Meehan was the first person to be convicted of membership of the Provisional IRA and the last prisoner released following the abolition of internment in Northern Ireland?
- ...that the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall houses the remains of victims of the Nanking Massacre in a building shaped like a coffin?
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- ...that by using automatic number plate recognition, a CCTV network (cameras pictured) known as ANPR, police in the United Kingdom are able to track the movement of cars in real time and store vehicle movement information for five years?
- ...that Dr. Chris Hatcher convinced the jury in a capital punishment case without having interviewed the defendant?
- ...that the mother of IRA prisoner Jackie McMullan chained herself to railings outside 10 Downing Street in London?
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- ...that Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified (pictured) by Song Chinese investigator Song Ci documents some of the earliest work in forensic entomology?
- ...that the presence of certain insects in a corpse may be indicators of elder or child abuse?
- ...that John Jacobs was expelled from the Weatherman organization after the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion for advocating the "military error" of violent revolution?
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- ...that apart from blowflies, some flesh-eating beetles (pictured) can also be used by forensic entomologists in determining the time of death of a corpse?
- ...that after Edward Phelan was acquitted of murder, indicted on perjury charges and killed by companions in self-defense, one of the largest lakes in Saint Paul, Minnesota was named after him?
- ...that in Medellín v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court held that, absent an act of Congress or Constitutional authority, the U.S. President lacks the power to enforce decisions of the International Court of Justice?
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- ...that Kentucky Governor Joseph Desha (pictured) pardoned his son Isaac after he had twice been convicted of murder?
- ...that the former Australian Supreme Court justice and barrister, Sir John Vincent Barry, qualified as a lawyer after graduating from an articled clerk course?
- ...that Judge James Yates resigned from the New York State Supreme Court to be General counsel to the Governor of New York David Paterson?
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- ...that, by the time the Florida Supreme Court finally ruled that William D. Bloxham (pictured) had won the 1870 Lieutenant Governor election, it was 1872 and the term was effectively over?
- ...that Pasquale Condello of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, recently captured by Italian police in February 2008, was previously sentenced in absentia to four life prison terms plus another 22 years in jail?
- ...that Miller's Court in Dorset Street was the location of the last murder by Jack the Ripper on November 9, 1888?
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- ...that the 1990 Strangeways Prison riot (prison pictured) at 25 days was the longest British prison riot?
- ...that although Desmond Lardner-Burke, Minister of Justice in Rhodesia, died in the 1980s, his name appeared on the electoral roll for the Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 2008?
- ...that The Guardian newspaper was founded 189 years ago in Manchester, England as a direct response to the Peterloo Massacre?
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- ...that the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack (affected restaurants pictured) was the first bioterrorism attack in the United States, and one of only two confirmed terrorist uses of biological weapons to harm humans?
- ...that Brad Avakian, Oregon's recently appointed Labor Commissioner, previously worked as a civil rights attorney, and was honored by two unions during his time in the Oregon Legislative Assembly?
- ...that Section 171 of the Criminal Code of Cyprus, which prohibited homosexual acts between men, was repealed just eight days before a May 29, 1998 deadline set by the Council of Europe?
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- ...that Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln (pictured) sent the Secret Service and Pinkerton's detectives to find and capture convicted embezzler Capt. Henry W. Howgate?
- ...that Jean Follain was a corporate lawyer, magistrate and award-winning author and poet who wrote the poem "Death of the Ferret"?
- ...that reputed 25-year-old gangster Nicodemo Scarfo, Jr. was the victim of a notorious mob hit by a gunman wearing a Batman mask on Halloween in 1989?
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- ...that cyber law author and professor Jonathan Zittrain (pictured) co-founded StopBadware.org to distribute the task of collecting data about malware to Internet users at large?
- ... that after ten years as an outlaw in the American Southwest in the 1890s, Nathaniel "Texas Jack" Reed became an evangelist and sold copies of his memoir on life as a bandit?
- ...that Percy Hoskins, was the only journalist working for a national British newspaper to defend suspected serial killer Dr. John Adams when he was arrested for murdering patients in 1956?
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- ... that the Piliyandala bombing of April 25, 2008 was the deadliest attack on a commuter bus in Sri Lanka (location map pictured) since the January 16 Buttala attack?
- ...that Siegfried Kasche, the Third Reich's ambassador to Croatia from 1941 to 1945, was tried for "complicity in deportations and murders" by a Yugoslav court and executed in June 1947?
- ... that Richard Honaker, Bush nominee for U.S. District Judge in Wyoming, washed dishes in a work-study program while studying at Harvard University with future comedian Al Franken?
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- ... that councilman Larry Gossett (pictured) works in an office at the King County Courthouse in King County, Washington, located exactly where he was jailed for unlawful assembly after a 1968 sit-in?
- ... that in the Jilava Massacre, perpetrated in Romania in 1940, 64 prisoners were shot to death, including a former prime minister, justice minister, and chief of secret police?
- ... that Dr Arthur Henry Douthwaite's testimony in court against suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams is said to have cost him the presidency of the Royal College of Physicians?
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- ...that Juan Garcia Abrego (pictured), in 1995, was the first drug trafficker to ever be listed on the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's Top Ten Most Wanted List?
- ... that before Homer Plessy challenged the Separate Car Act leading to Plessy v. Ferguson, Daniel Desdunes had challenged it but had his charges dropped?
- ... that Rachel Wall was the first American-born female pirate, and the last woman to be hanged in Massachusetts?
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- ... that one novelty of Hans Gieng's 1543 statue on the Fountain of Justice (pictured) in Berne was the portrayal of Lady Justice as blindfolded?
- ... that the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement would allow security officials at some international borders to randomly search travelers' MP3 players, laptops, and cell phones for copyright-infringing music files?
- ... that the One-armed bandit murder, the first gangland killing in North-East England, inspired the novel on which the film Get Carter was based?
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- ... that the Franklin County Courthouse (pictured) incorporates the walls and columns left after Confederate forces burned the previous courthouse during the American Civil War?
- ... that between 1970 and 1984 the WE Seal of approval program aided in an estimated US$100,000 in restitution being made to collectors of comics and other memorabilia victimized by mail fraud?
- ... that a bipartisan commission was established by law in 2003 with the mandate to study prison rape in the United States?
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- ... that the horses in the Minneapolis Police Department mounted patrol (horse pictured) commute to Minneapolis from a nearby ranch?
- ... that the 7th District Police Station, on Maxwell Street in Chicago, Illinois, was used as the picture of the precinct house in the opening credits of Hill Street Blues?
- ... that Romanian businessman Gheorghe Ştefănescu was executed for selling large quantities of adulterated wine?
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- ... that MP Sir Anthony Kershaw returned leaked documents about the sinking of the General Belgrano (pictured), resulting in the prosecution of Clive Ponting?
- ... that the FBI Buffalo Field Office houses over ten different investigative programs and two different specialty programs?
- ... that the Type 77 semi-automatic pistol is a common side arm used in the Chinese People's Liberation Army?
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- ... that T. Muthuswamy Iyer was the first Indian judge of the Madras High Court (court pictured)?
- ... that according to The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend, had the plot succeeded, it would have created more persecution of English Catholics rather than less?
- ... Nat Williams is the first ever African American sheriff elected in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, where the last three elected sheriffs had been sent to jail?
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- ... that the debtors' prisons in Accomac (pictured), Worsham, and Tappahannock, Virginia, have all survived to the present day?
- ... that a grand jury found Arizona Territory's "Thieving Thirteenth" legislature exceeded a US$4,000 legal limitation for operating expenses by US$46,744.50?
- ... that the Stephen Downing case, also known as the Bakewell Tart murder, has been described as the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history?
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