Thiruvendran Vignarajah is the lead attorney in the post-conviction appeal of a murderer whose victim attended what high school?
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Thiruvendran Vignarajah Thiruvendran ("Thiru") Vignarajah (born December 18, 1976) is an American lawyer and politician. He previously served as Deputy Attorney General of Maryland. He has also served as a federal prosecutor, clerked for Justice Stephen G. Breyer, and was President of the "Harvard Law Review". He is now a litigation partner at the law firm DLA Piper in Baltimore, but continues to serve as the lead attorney for the State of Maryland in the post-conviction appeal of Adnan Syed, who was convicted of the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee and was the subject of the popular podcast Serial.
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Murder of Hae Min Lee Hae Min Lee (Hangul: 이해민 ; October 15, 1980 – January 13, 1999) was a Korean-American high school senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, who disappeared on January 13, 1999. Her body was found four weeks later in Leakin Park, the victim of murder by manual strangulation. Adnan Masud Syed, her ex-boyfriend, was convicted in February 2000 of first-degree murder and given a life sentence plus 30 years.
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&quot;Welding&quot; Kumar "Welding" Kumar was an Indian criminal from Chennai. He was notorious for an attack on advocate Shanmugasundaram for which he was sentenced to life in prison. He was later killed in Puzhal prison during a fight with his inmates.
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2006 Trincomalee massacre of students The incident referred to as Trincomalee massacre in 2006 happened when five minority Sri Lankan Tamil high school students playing by the beach were briefly detained and then shot dead.
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Murder of Kriss Donald Kriss Donald (2 July 1988 – 15 March 2004) was a Scottish 15-year-old white male who was kidnapped and murdered in Glasgow in 2004 by a gang of men of Pakistani origin, some of whom fled to Pakistan after the crime. Daanish Zahid, Imran Shahid, Zeeshan Shahid, and Mohammed Faisal Mustaq were later found guilty of racially motivated murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. A fifth participant in the crime was convicted of racially motivated violence and jailed for five years.
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Bega schoolgirl murders The Bega schoolgirl murders refers to the abduction, rape and murder of New South Wales schoolgirls, 14-year-old Lauren Margaret Barry and 16-year-old Nichole Emma Collins of Bega, New South Wales on 6 October 1997.
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Geeta and Sanjay Chopra kidnapping case The Geeta and Sanjay Chopra kidnapping case (also known as the Ranga-Billa case) was a kidnapping and murder crime in New Delhi in 1978. It involved the kidnapping and the subsequent murder of siblings, Geeta and Sanjay, by Kuljeet Singh (alias Ranga Khus) and Jasbir Singh (alias Billa). The children were kidnapped for ransom but, on learning their father was a naval officer, both were killed. Geeta was allegedly raped before being murdered, but forensic evidence could not confirm it. The kidnappers had initially admitted to raping her but later retracted the statement. The two kidnappers were convicted and sentenced to death. The execution was carried out in 1982.
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Shamim Reza Rubel murder Shamim Reza Rubel murder is a murder of private university student that took place in Police custody and created a landmark legal case in Bangladesh.
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Jyoti Singh ""Jyoti Singh" was also the name of the victim in the 2012 Delhi gang rape"
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Clarence Elkins Clarence Arnold Elkins Sr. (born 1963) is an American man who was wrongfully convicted of the 1998 rape and murder of his mother-in-law, Judith Johnson, Melinda Elkins's mother, and the rape and assault of his niece, Brooke. He was convicted solely on the basis of testimony of his 6-year-old niece who testified that Elkins was the perpetrator.
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Murder of Dru Sjodin Dru Katrina Sjodin (September 26, 1981 – November 22, 2003) was a murder victim who was abducted from the Columbia Mall parking lot in Grand Forks, North Dakota, by Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., on November 22, 2003. Her disappearance garnered great media coverage throughout the United States and prompted the creation of the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Registry.
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Terry Driver Terry Driver (born 1965), "alias" the Abbotsford killer, is a convicted Canadian murderer who attacked a total of four teenage girls with a baseball bat, killed one, then taunted police in Abbotsford, British Columbia with letters and phone calls.
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P. Kalimuthu P. Kalimuthu (born Kalimuthu s/o Pakirisamy; January 22, 1961 – June 29, 1993) or popularly known as Bentong Kali was a notorious Malaysian gangster who attained national fame in the 1990s. He was implicated in 17 different murders; terrorized the capital through violence, extortion and heroin smuggling. He also made headlines when he challenged the police to arrest him. He was gunned down, finally, by the Royal Malaysian Police's Special Operations Command from Bukit Aman, Kuala Lumpur.
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T. S. Sinnathuray Thirugnana Sampanthar Sinnathuray {'1': ", '2': 'BBM(L)', '3': ", '4': "} (22 September 1930 – 18 January 2016), known professionally as T. S. Sinnathuray and to his friends as Sam Sinnathuray, was a Judge of the High Court of Singapore. Educated at University College London and called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, he practised for a few years in a law firm before beginning a career with the Singapore Legal Service, serving with the Attorney-General's Chambers as Crown Counsel and deputy public prosecutor (1960–1963), and senior state counsel (1966–1967); with the Subordinate Courts as a magistrate (1956–1959), First District Judge (1967–1970), and Senior District Judge (1971–1978); and with the Supreme Court as Deputy Registrar and Sheriff (1959–1960), and Registrar (1963–1966). In 1978 he was elevated to the office of Judge of the High Court of Singapore, and served until his retirement in 1997.
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Murder of Romona Moore Romona Moore (1982 - April 2003) was a 21-year-old Hunter College honors student who disappeared April 24, 2003 in her neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Two months later, her body was discovered outside an abandoned house where an anonymous caller had directed her mother. Two male suspects were arrested; they were convicted in 2006 of having kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered Moore. While attending college, the young immigrant from Guyana was living at home with her parents and relatives.
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Columbine High School massacre The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County in the American state of Colorado. In addition to the shootings, the complex and highly planned attack involved a fire bomb to divert firefighters, propane tanks converted to bombs placed in the cafeteria, 99 explosive devices, and carbombs. The perpetrators, senior students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students and one teacher. They injured 21 additional people, and three more were injured while attempting to escape the school. The pair subsequently committed suicide.
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Murder of Paul Broussard Paul Broussard (1964–1991), a 27-year-old Houston-area banker and Texas A&M alumnus, died after a gay-bashing incident outside a Houston nightclub in the early hours of July 4, 1991. Nine high school youths, ages 15–17, and one 22-year-old were high on drugs and alcohol when they left a high school party in the suburb of The Woodlands and headed for Houston's heavily gay Montrose area in an attempt to gain admittance to dance clubs located in the vicinity.
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Kevin Ray Underwood Kevin Ray Underwood (born December 19, 1979) is a convicted murderer from Purcell, Oklahoma.
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Sunil Rastogi Sunil Rastogi born 1979, a presumed paedophiliac is a serial rapist who was arrested on 15 January 2017, on charges of raping numerous minor girls. Rastogi, had been targeting girls walking home from school since 13 years. Rastogi, a tailor by profession, from Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, used to allure minors school girls, when they would return from school. He used to give a falsified reference identity of being victim's father friend and alluring the victim with clothes and snacks. He had reportedly assaulted hundreds of school girls from 2004 onwards. Rastogi had superstitious beliefs of dressing in red and blue, before attempting the crime, and believed that he would not be caught by his beliefs. According to sources, Rastogi is married and, has five children. Rastogi, used to assault minor school girls, in pattern execution of crime. Rastogi used to catch the train Sampark Kranti Express only on odd dates and would reach Delhi in search of prey.
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Colin Campbell Ross Colin Campbell Eadie Ross (11 October 1892 – 24 April 1922) was an Australian wine-bar owner convicted of the murder of a child, which became known as the Gun Alley Murder, and executed despite evidence that he was innocent. Following his execution, efforts were made to clear his name, but it was not until the 1990s that the key evidence was re-examined using modern forensic techniques, strongly indicating that Ross was innocent. As a result, an appeal for mercy was made to Victoria's Chief Justice in 2006, and on 27 May 2008 the Governor of Victoria pardoned Ross, in what is believed to be an Australian legal first.
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Ita Martadinata Haryono Ita Martadinata Haryono was an Indonesian human rights activist, who was murdered in 1998, a case which is still unsolved.
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Brian L. Rooney Brian L. Rooney (born June 27, 1970) is a former construction worker who was convicted of the abduction and murder of 21-year-old college student Michelle Gardner-Quinn, a senior at the University of Vermont, located in Burlington, Vermont.