- Robert Blake
Robert Blake (born September 18, 1933) is an American actor most famous for starring in the U.S. television series "Baretta."
- Jeff Smith
Jeffrey Vincent Smith MBE is a former world champion motocross racer. His achievements include two FIM 500cc Motocross World Championships (1964, 1965), two British Trials Championships, multiple British Experts Trial wins, four individual race wins in the Motocross des Nations and three ISDE Gold Medals. He was a member of the BSA factory racing team. Smith began his riding career as a trials rider, …
- Ray Lewis
2001, 2003, 2004, 2006Ray Anthony Lewis (born May 15, 1975 in Bartow, Florida) is an American football linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL. He was the first linebacker to win Super Bowl MVP since 1971. He posted 44 tackles, two interceptions, one fumble recovery, nine pass deflections, and a touchdown in the Ravens' four game playoff run. Lewis has been named to the Pro Bowl eight times and has been an All-Pro seven times including five first team selections.
- Ryan Leech
Ryan Leech (born 1979, British Columbia, Canada) is a professional trials mountain bike rider. At 14 he began racing mountain, inspired by Team ORB. Ryan began getting increasingly involved in trials riding throughout the mid 90's. At age 16 Ryan became one of the youngest trials event organizers ever after he organized and won a competition in which he held in his front yard.
- Michael Skakel
Michael, whose dyslexia was not diagnosed until he was 26, was an awful student who failed out of a dozen schools. His father railed at him for his poor academics, and Michael says he was "the family scapegoat" even as a young child. The central event of his childhood, and perhaps his life, was his mother's death from cancer in 1973 when Michael was 12. She had been the glue that held the family together, and Michael was devastated by her death.
- Sammy Miller
Sammy Miller (born Northern Ireland 1935) is a championship winning motorcycle racer, in both road racing and trials. Today, Miller is still winning events. After attending his first race at the age of 16 in 1951, Miller followed a route involving both road, dirt/grass track racing and motorcycle trials. Miller became British Trials Champion 11 times and won the European Trials Championship twice. In his continuing career, Miller is a winner of over 1300 trials, …
- David Knight
David Knight is an motorcycle enduro rider from the Isle Of Man. He competes in the E3 class (over 450cc) of the World Enduro Championship (WEC) for KTM, where he won the class last year (2005) and the ISDE outright. In 2006 he posted a "perfect" season, winning every day of every WEC event (Knight also won almost every special test at each event). He also competes in a wide range of "extreme" enduro events, such as: the Hells Gate extreme enduro in Italy, …
- Michael Irvin
Michael Jerome Irvin (born March 5, 1966 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is a former American football player for the Dallas Cowboys and former broadcaster for ESPN's "NFL Countdown". He is regarded as one of the most successful wide receivers in the history of the National Football League. Irvin was nicknamed "The Playmaker" due to his penchant for making big plays in big games during his college career.
- William Kennedy Smith
William Kennedy Smith (born September 4, 1960) is an American physician whose work focuses on landmines and the rehabilitation of people disabled by them. He is a member of the prominent Kennedy political family and is famous for a well-publicized 1991 rape trial in which he was acquitted.
- Sammie Henson
Samuel Henson is an American Olympic wrestler who won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the freestyle 54 kg category. He lost to Namig Abdullayev of Azerbaijan.
- Madeleine Smith
Madeleine Smith was a nineteenth century Glasgow socialite who was the defendant in sensational murder trial in Scotland in the summer of 1857. Although she is widely regarded as a convicted murderess, in fact, the verdict given at her trial was not proven.
- Merlin Holland
Merlin Holland is Oscar Wilde's only grandson. He was born in 1945, the only child of Vyvyan Holland and his second wife, the former Thelma Besant. He has studied and researched Oscar Wilde's life for the last twenty years. He is the co-editor of "The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde", and the editor of "Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess", the first uncensored publication of his grandfather's 1895 trials.
- Su Tseng-Chang
Su Tseng-chang is a Taiwanese politician of the Democratic Progressive Party. He is the former Premier of the Republic of China. Su actively campaigned for the Presidential nomination of the DPP, but finished second to Frank Hsieh in the nomination process. Born in Pingtung, Su was a practicing lawyer (1973-1983) educated in the National Taiwan University. He was a defense lawyer in the Kaohsiung Incident trials.
- Judith Coplon
Judith Coplon (born 1922) was one of the first major figures tried in the United States for spying for the Soviet Union; problems in her trials had a profound influence on espionage prosecutions during the McCarthy era. Her disclosures to the Soviet intelligence agencies were the first information to alert them to the size of the U.S. counter-intelligence operation against them.
- Stanley Woods
Stanley Woods (1903 - 28 July 1993) Dublin, an Irish motocycle racer famous for 29 motorcycle Grand Prix wins and winning the Isle of Man TT races 10 times in his career. He was a past pupil of The High School, Dublin. Stanley started racing in 1921 on a Harley Davidson. He was also a skilled trials rider competing in the 1930s.
- Bill Lomas
Bill Lomas (born March 8, 1928) was a Scottish former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He was a two-time World Champion and a two-time Isle of Man TT winner. He won the 1955 and 1956 350cc world championship for Moto Guzzi. In the 1956 season, he rode the famous V8 Moto Guzzi Grand Prix race bike. Lomas was also an accomplished trials rider.
- Carnegie Of Finhaven
Carnegie of Finhaven is famous for his trial for the murder of Charles Lyon, 6th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne which resulted in the not guilty verdict becoming a recognised part of Scots law and establishment the right of Scots juries to judge the whole case and not just the facts, a right known as jury nullification.
- Britton Bath Osler
Britton Bath Osler (19 June 1839 - 5 February 1901) was a Canadian lawyer and prosecutor. The older of three famous brothers; (Edmund Boyd Osler, and Sir William Osler), he was born in Bond Head, Canada West. He first rose to national prominence by helping to secure the conviction of Louis Riel on charges of treason following the North-West Rebellion of 1885.
- Teresa Bagioli Sickles
Teresa Bagioli Sickles, (1836-1867) was the wife of Democratic Party New York State Assemblyman, U.S. Representative, and later U.S. Army Major General Daniel Edgar Sickles. She gained notoriety in 1859, when her husband stood trial for the 1858 murder of her lover, Philip Barton Key, son of Francis Scott Key. This trial was the first known use of the temporary insanity defense in American jurisprudence.
- Josephine Terranova
Josephine Pullare Terranova (April 21, 1889 in San Stefano, Sicily - July 16, 1981 in California) was the defendant in a sensational murder trial in New York City in 1906. After years of sexual abuse at the hands of her aunt and uncle, she stabbed the pair to death. A jury later acquitted her in what was widely regarded as an act of jury nullification. She later settled in the San Francisco Bay Area, allegedly with the financial assistance of William Randolph Hearst.
- Reidar Haaland
Reidar Haaland (1919 - August 17 1945) was a police officer from Stavanger, Norway and a voluntary frontline soldier for the German forces. A member of Nasjonal Samling, he became the first Norwegian to receive the death sentence during the post-World War II trials, and was executed on August 17, 1945 at Akershus Fortress, Oslo for treason.
- Norman Fleischman
Norman Fleischman is a former prominent Brentwood, Tennessee salesman who was jailed for pedophilia in 2006. He was the first Nashville/Middle Tennessee resident to waive a trial, and go directly to a grand jury.
- Hoss Emo Trials
- Andy Andy Gibb Trials
- Faith In Trials
- Joyce Cramer
Joyce A. Cramer Joyce A. Cramer is an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. During several decades of work in clinical trials, she developed methods for the evaluation of drug efficacy and adverse effects, study design and management, and enhancement of medication compliance, as well as instruments to assess quality of life and other patient-reported outcomes for various medical disorders.
- Gerald E. Rosen
Judge Gerald E. Rosen was nominated by President George Bush to the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in November, 1989, and was invested in March 1990. Prior to taking the Bench, Judge Rosen was a Senior Partner in the law firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone. While at Miller, Canfield, Judge Rosen was a trial lawyer, specializing in commercial, labor and constitutional litigation and litigated a number of important, high-profile cases.
- Les Vough
Les Vough Dr. Les Vough , a University and Extension Specialist with over 20 years of forage agronomy experience in Maryland, is the Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative Coalition's Grazing Specialist, providing Maryland's farming community with forage agronomist technical assistance to prepare and implement grazing plans.
- Debra A. Monte
Debra A. Monte is the Department Advocate in the Legal Affairs’ Bureau of Investigations and Trials (BITs) at the Fire Department. Debra has worked in City government for over 24 years beginning her career as an Emergency Medical Technician. She advanced to Paramedic, Paramedic Instructor/Coordinator and Trainer, and Lieutenant before her promotion to Captain in 2001.
- Kenneth A. Newby
Kenneth A. Newby Associate Mr. Newby is an associate in our Litigation practice. Mr. Newby’s commercial litigation experience includes assisting with cases involving breach of various types of commercial leases and defense of indenture trustee in $578,000,000 suit brought on behalf of noteholders. He has a wide variety of experience in researching litigation issues involving commercial, antitrust, trademark, copyright, arbitration, and securities litigation.
- Graham Webb
Born in Birmingham, UK, to L. Webb a battle of El Alamein war widow, I was the youngest of 5 children. Started cycling at the age of 8 and was many times British National cycling champion and National record holder at 10 miles, 25 miles and 1 hour. Moved to the Netherlands in 1967 where I became world cycling road champion, signed a professional contract with the French Mercier team in 1968 and moved to Belgium, where I still live with my family. http://crazyaboutbelgium.co.uk/blogs/webb.htm
- Tim Trials
- Rebecca West
Dame Rebecca West, DBE (December 21, 1892-March 15, 1983), whose real name was Cicely (she later changed it to "Cicily") Isabel Fairfield, was a British-Irish suffragist and writer famous for her novels, criticism, travel writing--and, at the merely personal level, for her irregular relationship with H. G. Wells. A prolific, protean author, she wrote for "The New Yorker", "The New Republic", "The Sunday Telegraph", …
- Erich Raeder
Erich Johann Albert Raeder was a naval leader in Germany before and during World War II. Raeder attained the highest possible naval rank – that of "Großadmiral" (Grand Admiral) – in 1939, becoming the first person to hold that rank since Alfred von Tirpitz. Raeder led the "Kriegsmarine" (German Navy) for the first half of World War II, but resigned in 1943 and was replaced by Karl Dönitz. He was sentenced to life in prison at the Nuremberg Trials, …
- Matthew Halton
Matthew Henry Halton (September 7, 1904 - December 3, 1956) was a Canadian television journalist, most famous as a foreign correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation during World War II. Born in Pincher Creek, Alberta, Halton attended teachers college in Calgary and taught school for several years before attending the University of Alberta, where he gained experience reporting and editing for "The Gateway".
- Albert Speer
Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, commonly known as Albert Speer (March 19, 1905 - September 1, 1981), was an architect, author and high-ranking Nazi German government official, sometimes called "the first architect of the Third Reich". His two bestselling autobiographical works, "Inside the Third Reich" and "Spandau: the Secret Diaries" detailed his often close personal relationship with German dictator Adolf Hitler, …
- Hans Frank
Hans Michael Frank (May 23, 1900 - October 16, 1946) was a German lawyer who worked for the Nazi party during the 1920s and 1930s and a senior official in Nazi Germany. He was prosecuted during the Nuremberg trials for his role in perpetrating the Holocaust during his tenure as Governor-General of occupied Poland. He was found guilty of complicity in the murder of millions of Poles and Polish Jews, and executed on October 16 1946.
- Dieter Wisliceny
Dieter Wisliceny was a member of the Nazi SS, and a key executioner of the Final Solution of the Jewish Question, the final phase of the Holocaust. Joining the Nazi Party in 1933, and enlisting in the SS in 1934, Wisliceny eventually rose to the rank of Hauptsturmführer. During implementation of the Final Solution, his task was the ghettoization and liquidation of several important Jewish communities in Nazi-occupied Europe, including those of Greece, Hungary and Slovakia.
- Alfred Rosenberg
"'"' (January 12, 1893 Reval (nowadays Tallinn) – October 16, 1946) was an early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi party, who later held several important posts in the Nazi government. He is considered the main author of key Nazi ideological creeds, including its racial theory, persecution of the Jews, "Lebensraum", abolition of the Treaty of Versailles, and opposition to "degenerate" modern art. He is also known for his rejection of Christianity.
- Pablo Paredes
Pablo Paredes (b. 1981, The Bronx, New York) was a Petty Officer Third Class and weapons-control technician in the United States Navy who refused to board the USS "Bonhomme Richard" as it deployed to the Persian Gulf, December 6 2004 as part of the Operation Iraqi Freedom. During his 2002 tour in Japan, Paredes met several people who were highly critical of the US military interventions. After his return to the United States in 2004, …