James T. Richardson is notably outspoken on which high-profile case that was born on February 20, 1954?
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James T. Richardson James T. Richardson (born c. 1943) is a Professor of Sociology and Judicial Studies, and the Director of the Master of Judicial Studies Degree Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. Richardson specializes in social and behavioral science evidence, Sociology of Religions and New Religious Movements, Sociology of law, and Social movements. He is notably outspoken on high-profile cases such as Elizabeth Smart and Patty Hearst. He is a scientific critic of brainwashing theories.
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Patty Hearst Patricia Campbell "Patty" Hearst (born February 20, 1954), now known as Patricia Hearst Shaw, is the granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. She became nationally known for events following her 1974 kidnapping while she was a 19-year-old student living in Berkeley, California. Hearst was abducted by a small left-wing terrorist group with only 20 members known as the Symbionese Liberation Army. After being isolated and threatened with death, she became supportive of their cause, making propaganda announcements for them and taking part in illegal activities.
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Daniel Conahan Daniel Owen Conahan Jr. (born May 11, 1954) is a convicted American murderer and suspected serial killer. Conahan was convicted of one murder but has been linked to over a dozen murders, mostly of homosexual men in the Charlotte County, Florida area in what came to be known as the Hog Trail Murders.
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Richard Gergel Richard Mark Gergel (born August 14, 1954) is a South Carolina lawyer and United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.
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James R. Grover Jr. James Russell Grover Jr. (March 5, 1919 – October 14, 2012) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
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Eric T. Washington Eric T. Washington (born December 2, 1953) is a Senior Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the highest appellate court for the District of Columbia. He was appointed to the D.C. Court of Appeals in 1999 by President Bill Clinton and served as Chief Judge from August 6, 2005, to March 18, 2017.
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Barbara M. Lynn Barbara M. G. Lynn (born 1952) is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, with chambers in Dallas, Texas.
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James C. McKay James "Jim" McKay (February 24, 1917 – November 23, 2015) was an American trial lawyer. As Independent Counsel from 1987 to 1990, he investigated allegations of illicit lobbying and conflicts of interest during the administration of Ronald Reagan, including investigation of then-sitting U.S. Attorney Edwin Meese.
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Priscilla Owen Priscilla Richman Owen (born October 4, 1954) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She was previously a Justice on the Texas Supreme Court.
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R. Foster Winans Robert Foster Winans (born August 5, 1948) is a former columnist for "The Wall Street Journal" who co-wrote the "Heard on the Street Column" from 1982 to 1984 and was convicted of insider trading and mail fraud. He was indicted by then-U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani and convicted in 1985 of violating Federal law by leaking advance word of the contents of his columns to a stockbroker, Peter N. Brant, at Kidder, Peabody & Co., an old-line brokerage firm. Brant was decades later labeled a recidivist by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Winans' conviction for violating securities law was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987 as "Carpenter v. United States" by a rare 4–4 deadlocked vote. The Supreme Court unanimously affirmed his convictions for committing federal mail and wire fraud, however. He served nine months in federal prison.
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James Arthur Ray James Arthur Ray (born November 22, 1957) is a motivational speaker and author who was convicted of felony negligent homicide. He is the author of "Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want", which was a "New York Times" bestseller.
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Ellis Rubin Ellis S. Rubin (June 20, 1925 – December 12, 2006) was an American attorney in Miami, Florida who gained national fame for handling a variety of highly publicized cases in a legal career that spanned 53 years. He was famous for his innovative defenses and his propensity for handling lost causes. Rubin won the first case in Florida using the “battered woman” defense. He also worked to free a man, James Richardson, who had been wrongly imprisoned for 21 years for fatally poisoning his seven children, and created the nymphomania defense in a case involving prostitution.
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Denise Page Hood Denise Page Hood (born 1952) is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
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Michael Kantaras Michael John Kantaras (born March 26, 1959) is an American trans man who was involved in a high-profile child custody case with his ex-wife. The case had implications for the legal status of transsexual marriages and the legal definitions of "man" and "woman."
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L. Lin Wood Lucian Lincoln "Lin" Wood Jr. (born October 19, 1952 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is a high-profile American attorney based in Atlanta, Georgia. He represented Richard Jewell, the security guard falsely accused in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta in 1996. Wood's representation of Richard Jewell propelled Wood from a personal injury lawyer to be known as one of the top libel, defamation and First Amendment lawyers in the U. S. earning him the title of "Attorney for the Damned".
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James L. Browning Jr. James Louis Browning Jr. (December 8, 1932 – January 12, 2016) was a California jurist. He served as United States Attorney for the Northern District of California from 1969 to 1977 and later as a municipal, then state judge. He was the lead prosecutor in the sensational case that sent newspaper heiress Patty Hearst to prison in 1976.
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Peter James Knight Peter James Knight (born 1 January 1954) is an anti-abortion activist who shot dead a security guard in an Australian abortion clinic.
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Maureen Mahoney Maureen E. Mahoney (born August 28, 1954) is a former deputy solicitor general and "top appellate lawyer" at the law firm of Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C., who has argued cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. Notably, she argued on behalf of the University of Michigan and its affirmative action program in "Grutter v. Bollinger" (2003), in which the Court decided in favor of Michigan by a 5–4 vote.
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Nancy Grace Nancy Ann Grace (born October 23, 1959) is an American legal commentator, television host, television journalist, and former prosecutor. She frequently discusses issues from what she describes as a "victims' rights" standpoint, with an outspoken style that has brought her both praise and criticism. She was the host of "Nancy Grace" from 2005 to 2016, which was a nightly celebrity news and current affairs show on HLN, and she was the host of Court TV's "Closing Arguments" (1996–2007) as well. She also co-wrote the book "Objection!: How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System."
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Dennis Levine Dennis B. Levine (born August 1952) was a prominent player in merger and acquisition business and the Wall Street insider trading scandals of the mid-1980s. As a managing director at Drexel Burnham Lambert, he was at the center of the frenetic 1980s merger and acquisition boom. His career on Wall Street ended with his indictment for insider trading, making him one of the first of several high-profile insider trading defendants indicted and convicted by U. S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani.
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James Autry James David Autry (September 27, 1954 – March 14, 1984) was a convicted murderer in the U.S. state of Texas, executed by lethal injection.
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James S. Gwin James S. Gwin (born 1954) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.