• early colonial Australia. In 1810 he was the first ex-convict to be appointed as magistrate. Thompson was born into a rural weaving family in the Scottish...
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  • see Hitech Racing Andrew Thompson (convict, magistrate) (c. 1773–1810), Australian convict and settler Andrew Thompson (historian) (born 1968), British...
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    private employer in the colony. In 1810 he was the first ex-convict to be appointed as magistrate. James Hardy Vaux – author of Australia's first full-length...
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  • Emancipist (category Convictism in Australia)
    emancipist, Andrew Thompson, as a magistrate. John Irving (or Irven, Irwin, or Ervin) was Australia's first emancipist. Irving was a surgeon convicted of larceny...
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  • Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, abducted, tortured, and murdered a two-year-old boy, James Patrick Bulger (16 March 1990 – 12 February 1993). Thompson and...
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  • Wentworth, principal Surgeon; Mr William Redfern, Assistant Surgeon; Mr Andrew Thompson, an opulent Farmer and Proprietor of Land; and Mr Simeon Lord, an opulent...
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    arrived in New South Wales in 1791 as a convict, as had Andrew Thompson, whose name is remembered in Thompson Square. In 1800 Governor Hunter made Fitzgerald...
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    Edgar Ray Killen (category American Ku Klux Klan members convicted of crimes)
    11–1 in favor of conviction. The lone holdout said that she could not convict a preacher. The prosecution decided not to retry Killen and he was released...
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  • Sydney Morning Herald. 3 June 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2020. "Magistrates court convicts Federal Member". The Canberra Times. 24 May 1990. Carr, Adam....
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  • by Mick Gatto and Vince Benvenuto and executed by Andrew Veniamin; Faruk Orman was initially convicted of the murder, but was acquitted in 2019. 10 July...
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  • philanthropist, transported to New South Wales for theft Andrew Thompson (c. 1773–1810), Scottish farmer, magistrate, transported to New South Wales for theft William...
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    Neil Erikson (category Australian neo-Nazis convicted of crimes)
    Gutnick he knew his location and was coming to get him unless he paid. Magistrate Donna Bakos said Erikson's calls were motivated by prejudice and found...
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  • Brendan Dassey (category American people convicted of murder)
    1989) is an American prisoner from Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, who was convicted of being a party to first-degree murder, mutilation of a corpse, and second-degree...
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  • punishments as a magistrate, and the vehemence of his public denunciations of Catholicism and Irish convicts. About a quarter of convicts were Catholics...
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  • Jacob Hersant (category Australian neo-Nazis convicted of crimes)
    an Australian neo-Nazi and the first person to have been charged and convicted for publicly making a Nazi salute in the Australian state of Victoria...
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    Brandon Russell (category American neo-Nazis convicted of crimes)
    substations he said would cause a "cascading failure" if they were taken out. A magistrate judge in Florida ordered Russell held pending trial. Karin Slaughter's...
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  • Martin Stephens, Renae Lawrence, and his supervisor, Andrew Chan. All four would later be convicted of drug trafficking as fellow members of the Bali Nine...
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    Creek in which whites were held responsible. In 1820, two convicts, John Kirby and John Thompson, attempted to escape from the colony but were captured by...
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  • Steven Avery (category American people convicted of murder)
    July 9, 1962) is an American convicted murderer from Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, who had previously been wrongfully convicted in 1985 of sexual assault...
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    Australian wool industry, but also for his employment of convicts for farming and his actions as a magistrate at Parramatta, both of which attracted contemporary...
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  • principal of Harrogate College as a character witness, when Brons was convicted by magistrates of using insulting words and behaviour likely to cause a breach...
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  • Washington politics had topped everything off. In 1830 he became a County Magistrate, in King George County, Virginia. In 1840 he won the election with William...
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    North and South Thompson Rivers, which join to become the Thompson River in Kamloops, and east of Kamloops Lake. It is located in the Thompson-Nicola Regional...
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    Darren Till (category British sportspeople convicted of crimes)
    his purse to Thompson. Till won the fight via a controversial unanimous decision. 22 of 25 media outlets scored the bout in favor of Thompson. Till was given...
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  • 19 September – Following a three-day committal hearing in Ballarat, a magistrate discharges the entire case against a 66-year-old diabetic driver who was...
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    Redfern became the colonial surgeon, while Andrew Thompson and Simeon Lord were appointed as magistrates. The gentry in the colony, known as the "exclusives"...
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    1796 at a theatre in Sydney. The pamphlet for the play was printed by a convict in the settlement, George Hughes, who was the operator of Australia's first...
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    Third Magistrate in Singapore in 1880 and as Second Magistrate, the following year, before returning to Penang in the same year as First Magistrate. From...
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  • credible witness is one "whose credibility commends itself to the presiding magistrate ... the trustworthiness" of whom is good. Credible witnesses must be used...
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  • organization, Chicago labor union racketeer James Vinci is eventually convicted of his murder. February 20 - labor racketeer John "Smiling Jack" O'Brien...
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