- Gerardo Flores
Gerardo Flores (1986-) of Lufkin, Texas, was convicted in 2005 of two counts of capital murder for giving his girlfriend, who was carrying twins, an at-home abortion the previous year. Prosecutors chose not to seek the death penalty, and so he was sentenced automatically to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 40 years. The conviction and sentence were denounced as the most draconian punishment for abortion in America in decades. - Marcheline Bertrand
Marcheline Bertrand (May 9 1950 - January 27 2007) was an American actress of French-Canadian descent. According to daughter Angelina Jolie, Bertrand was often wrongly identified as a French actress: "My mom is as far from French Parisian as you can get. She was part Iroquois Indian, from Chicago. She grew up in a bowling alley that my grandparents owned." Of her reported Indigenous Iroquois ancestry, Bertrand's former husband, Jon Voight, … - Vanessa Bryant
Vanessa Cornejo Ubrieta Laine Bryant (born Vanessa Cornejo Ubrieta May 5, 1982) is the wife of NBA star Kobe Bryant. Vanessa met Kobe Bryant in November 1999, when she was 17, while she was working as a background dancer in the video G'd Up from the rap group Tha Eastsidaz. - Parker Stevenson
Parker Stevenson (born "Richard Stevenson Parker" on June 4, 1952 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American television actor. He attended Rye Country Day School in Rye, NY. His first notable screen appearance was a starring role in the 1972 movie "A Separate Peace". He graduated from Princeton University in 1976 and moved to Hollywood. Stevenson became well-known from starring in the "The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries" series with teen heartthrob, … - Nixzaliz Santiago
Nixzaliz Santiago (born 1979?) is the mother of murder victim Nixzmary Brown. She was arrested and charged in connection with the beating death of her daughter on January 11, 2006. Santiago was born in Puerto Rico but came to Brooklyn, New York in the 1990s. Over the course of 10 years she is known to have given birth to six children by at least three different partners (a seventh pregnancy ended in a miscarriage in late 2005, … - Kacey Ainsworth
Kacey Ainsworth (born 19 October 1970) is an English actress, best known for playing the long-suffering Little Mo in the BBC soap opera " EastEnders". She made her final appearance in "EastEnders" in May 2006. Although she has now left the television show, Ainsworth has agreed to contribute to a new book written by a group of Carlisle women with real-life experience of domestic abuse. - Erin Everly
Erin Invicta Everly (born November 8 1965) is the daughter of Don Everly, from the Everly Brothers, and actress Venetia Stevenson. Her siblings are sister Stacy Everly and brother Edan Everly. Soap opera actress Anna Lee was her grandmother. Erin Everly is also the former wife of Guns N' Roses lead singer, Axl Rose. Guns N' Roses' hit, Sweet Child O' Mine was written about Everly. Rose and Everly met in 1986 and dated for many years before Axl spontaneously proposed, … - Isabella Of France
Isabella of France (c.1295 - August 22, 1358), known as the "She-Wolf of France",(this sobriquet has been appropriated - now, all but transferred to Isabella - from Shakespeare's "Henry VI", where it is used to refer to Henry's Queen, Margaret of Anjou) was the Queen consort of Edward II of England. She was a member of the House of Capet. Isabella was born in Paris sometime between 1288 and 1296, the daughter of King Philip IV of France and Queen Jeanne of Navarre, … - Barbara Marten
Barbara Marten is a British actress. Barbara went to drama school as a teenager and says that it actually put her off becoming an actress. She trained as a teacher and taught for two years before been drawn back to the stage. After becoming involved with a theatre group in Coventry, Barbara joined a newly formed theatre group in Doncaster. They toured South Yorkshire, performing plays about various subjects, including the St Leger, and another about battered wives. - Georgeanna Jones
Georgeanna Seegar Jones, (July 6, 1912 - March 26, 2005), pioneered with her husband, Howard Jones, in vitro fertilization in the United States. Jones was one of the United States's first reproductive endocrinologist. She is best known for her work with in vitro fertilization, but is also credited with numerous other discoveries, one of which allowed women with a history of miscarriages, to carry their children full term. - Anne Of Great Britain
Anne (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) became Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702, succeeding King William III. Her Roman Catholic father, James II, was forcibly deposed in 1688; her brother-in-law and her sister then became joint monarchs as William III and Mary II, the only such case in British history. After Mary's death in 1694, William continued as sole monarch until his own death in 1702. On 1 May 1707, under the Acts of Union 1707, … - Merry Clayton
Merry Clayton (born December 25, 1948 in Gert Town, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American gospel singer. She provided a number of back-up vocal tracks to songs recorded by major performing artists during the 1960s. Her first name was given because she was born on Christmas day. She was married to jazz artist Curtis Amy until his death in 2002. She dueted with Mick Jagger on The Rolling Stones' song "Gimme Shelter" on their "Let It Bleed" release. - Cecil Jacobson
Cecil Byran Jacobson (born October 2, 1936 in Salt Lake City, Utah) was an American fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate his patients, without informing them. In the 1960s, Jacobson, who was a researcher and Chief of the Reproductive Genetics Unit at George Washington University Medical School, claimed that he had impregnated a male baboon; he had supposedly planted a fertilized egg from a female baboon into the male's abdominal cavity. - Helene Deutsch
Helene Deutsch (October 9, 1884 – March 29, 1982) was an Austrian-American psychoanalyst and colleague of Sigmund Freud. She was the first psychoanalyst to specialize in women. Born in Przemyśl, Deutsch studied medicine and psychiatry in Vienna and Munich, before she became a pupil of Freud. As his assistant she was the first woman to concern herself with the psychology of women. - Kerri-Anne Kennerly
Kerri-Anne Kennerly is an Australian television presenter. Kennerley has hosted many Australian television programs, including Midday with Kerri-Anne, Good Morning Australia, and her current job Mornings with Kerri-Anne. Kennerly first appeared on TV at 14 and has been working on live TV since 1981. The success of Mornings with Kerri-Anne is generally acknowledged as the reason for the demise of her previous program, Good Morning Australia. - Mary Tofts
Mary Tofts (born c. 1701) was a maidservant from Godalming, England, who in 1726 became the subject of considerable controversy when she hoaxed doctors into believing that she had given birth to at least sixteen rabbits. Tofts was twenty-five years old and married at the time, and despite a miscarriage in August had still seemed pregnant. She went into apparent labor and the Guildford male-midwife John Howard arrived to assist. - Charles de Bourbon Duc de Berry
Charles de France was Duke of Berry from birth. He was the youngest son of Louis, "le Grand Dauphin" and Maria Anna of Bavaria, and therefore a grandson of Louis XIV of France. He married Marie Louise Elisabeth d'Orléans (20 August 1695 - 21 July 1719) on 6 July 1710. She was the daughter of Philip II, Duke of Orléans, future Regent of France. The marriage was unhappy and after a miscarriage during Marie Louise Elisabeth's first pregnancy, … - Wiebo Ludwig
Wiebo Ludwig (born December 19 1941) is the leader of a religious commune in Alberta, Canada, who is best known for his legal problems arising from his conflict with the oil and gas industry. Ludwig has been accused of being an eco-terrorist for sabotaging oil and gas wells. Ludwig accuses the industry of poisoning his family and farm, and being responsible for his daughter's miscarriages, … - Catherine Of Vadstena
Saint Catherine of Sweden, "Catherine Vastanensis" or "Catherine of Vadstena" (circa 1332 - 24 March, 1381) is the patron saint of protection against abortion and miscarriage. Her father was Ulf Gudmarsson, Lord of Ulvåsa, and her mother was the better known Saint Birgitta (in their lifetime known as Birgitta Birgersdotter of Finsta). At the age of about 13 she married lord Eggert van Kyren, a young half-Swedish, half-Westphalian nobleman, … - Ann Hasseltine Judson
Ann Hasseltine Judson (December 22 1789 - October 24 1826) was one of the first female American foreign missionaries. She attended the Bradford Academy and during a revival there read "Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education" by Hannah More, which led her to "seek a life of 'usefulness'". Born in Bradford, Massachusetts, she was a teacher from graduation until marriage. - Moura Lympany
Dame Moura Lympany DBE (b. August 18 1916, Saltash, Cornwall, UK - d. March 28 2005, France) was an English concert pianist. She was born at Saltash, Cornwall, and christened Mary Johnstone. Her father was an army officer who had served in World War I and her mother originally taught her the piano. Mary was sent to a convent school in Belgium, where her musical talent was encouraged, and she went on to study at Liège, … - Sam Sheppard
Samuel Holmes Sheppard, D.O. (1923 - April 6, 1970) was an American osteopathic physician involved in a famous and controversial murder trial when he was convicted of the murder of his pregnant wife, Marilyn Sheppard. Sheppard served almost a decade in the Ohio Penitentiary before his 1954 conviction was overturned and declared a miscarriage of justice. In 1966, he was acquitted in a new trial. - Pietro Valpreda
Pietro Valpreda (22 June 1933 - 6 July 2002) was an Italian anarchist, dancer and novelist. He was victim of a miscarriage of justice, sentenced to prison on charges of being responsible of the December 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, before being cleared sixteen years later. Valpreda came from a poor working-class family in Milan, and, after the end of his formal education, attended dance school. He made his living as a minor dancer on stage. - Adriano Sofri
Adriano Sofri (Trieste, August 1, 1942), Italian politician, intellectual, journalist, writer. Former leader of the autonomist movement "Lotta Continua" ("Continuous Struggle"') in the 1960s, he was arrested in 1988 and accused of having ordered the execution of Luigi Calabresi, a police officer suspected of having killed the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli. Sofri, and the others comrades convicted with him, have always proclaimed their innocence. - Alan B. Gold
Alan Bernard Gold (1917 - May 15 2005) was the chief justice of the Quebec Superior Court from 1983 to 1992. He was born in Montreal in 1917. In 1938, he received a B.A. from Queen's University and a doctorate in civil law from the University of Montreal in 1941. He was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1942, but first served with the Royal Canadian Artillery during World War II. As an arbitrator, he helped avoid a strike by the longshoremen at the Port of Montreal in 1968. - Stefan Kiszko
Stefan Ivan Kiszko, a tax clerk, was the subject of an infamous miscarriage of justice in the United Kingdom. He was wrongly convicted of the sexual assault and murder of 11-year old Lesley Molseed, which took place on 5 October 1975 in Rochdale, Lancashire. - Sally Clark
Sally Clark (15 August 1964 - 15 March, 2007) was a British lawyer. She was the victim of a miscarriage of justice; her convictions in 1999 for the murder of two of her sons were quashed in 2003. Clark's first son died suddenly within a few weeks of his birth in 1996. After her second son died in a similar manner, she was arrested in 1998 and tried for the murder of both sons. - Fritz Moen
Fritz Yngvar Moen, born December 17, 1941 - died March 28, 2005, was a Norwegian wrongfully convicted for two distinct felony murders, serving a total of 18 years in prison. After the overturn of the conviction an official inquiry was instigated to establish what had gone wrong in the authorities' handling of the case, and on June 25, 2007 the commission dealt a crushing blow to both the police, … - Darryl Hunt
Darryl Hunt is an African-American man from Winston-Salem, North Carolina who, in 1984, was wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of a young white newspaper reporter, Deborah Sykes, but was later exonerated by DNA evidence. He served 19.5 years in prison before he was freed after review and exoneration. A modern "cause célèbre", his case was said to have "helped define race relations in Winston-Salem for 20 years". - Chika Honda
In 1992 Chika Honda, a 36-year-old Japanese tourist, was arrested on entry at Melbourne Airport, Australia, after heroin was found in her suitcase. She was later sentenced and served more than ten years in Melbourne prisons. Chika Honda was invited on the trip by Mitsuo Katsuno, a frequent customer to the small restaurant in Omiya, Japan where she worked as a waitress. She was at the time also studying to become a make-up artist. - David Bain
David Bain (born March 27 1972 in Dunedin, New Zealand) was convicted in May 1995 for the murder of his parents and siblings on 20 June the previous year. He served 12 years of a life sentence before his final appeal to the Privy Council was successful in May 2007. Finding there had been a substantial miscarriage of justice, the Privy Council quashed his convictions and ordered a retrial. He has now been released on bail and awaiting a retrial that was announced 21 June. - Chris Mullin
Christopher John Mullin, known as Chris Mullin, (born 12 December, 1947 in Chelmsford, Essex) is an UK Labour politician, currently the member of Parliament for the English constituency of Sunderland South. He read Law at the University of Hull Before being elected as an MP, he was a journalist working with the well-respected ITV documentary programme "World in Action" and had campaigned for the release of the Birmingham Six, … - Donald Duncan
Donald F. Duncan, Sr. (June 6, 1892 - May 15, 1971) was an American entrepreneur and inventor and founder of the Duncan Toys Company. Donald Duncan is most commonly associated with Yo-yos; the commercial success they enjoyed during the 20th century in the United States, and subsequently throughout the world, was due largely to his marketing efforts. Duncan is often miscredited with invention of the yo-yo. In fact, he never even held a patent on the toy, … - Geoffrey Lane Baron Lane
Geoffrey Dawson Lane, Baron Lane AFC PC (17 July, 1918 - 22 August, 2005) was a British Judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England from 1980 to 1992. The later part of his term was marred by the uncovering of a succession of miscarriages of justice. He will be remembered for his infamous comment, on turning down the first appeal by the Birmingham Six, … - Eric VI of Denmark
Eric VI "Menved" (1274 - 13 November 1319) was King of Denmark (1286-1319) and a son of Eric V and Agnes of Brandenburg. He became king in 1286, when his father was murdered 20 November by unknown assailants. Since Eric VI was then still a minor his mother ruled for him until 1294. Eric Menved’s rule is a central period during the “Age of Decay" in Denmark 1241-1340. - Toivo Mikael Kivimäki
Toivo Mikael Kivimäki, J.D., was head of the department of civil law at Helsinki University 1931-1956, Prime Minister of Finland 1932-1936, and Finland's ambassador to Berlin 1940-1944. In 1946, Kivimäki together with half-a-dozen other leading politicians were put on "war-responsibility trials" that generally were considered a complete miscarriage of justice, executed under pressure from the Allied victors in World War II, … - S. C. Lomax
S. C. Lomax is a true crime writer who campaigns for those wrongly convicted. He has successfully campaigned for two men and is involved in high profile cases in both the United Kingdom and the United States. He also writes about other injustices and unsolved crimes. He is the author of the books "Who Killed Jill Dando?" (ISBN 0-7552-0503-0) and "The Case of Barry George" (ISBN 0-7552-0500-6). - Patrick Meehan
Patrick (Paddy) Connolly Meehan (1928-1994) was a man who was the victim of a controversial miscarriage of justice in the UK. He came from Glasgow and was a "peter man", a safe blower with convictions for bank robbery. In 1969 Mrs. Rachel Ross was murdered during the robbery of a post office in Ayr by two men. Police suspected two men, Meehan and another who was shot dead while resisting arrest. Meehan was convicted of the murder, but his conviction proved controversial, … - Michael Jaster
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