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Vance was killed instantly and his wife, Helen, was seriously injured. After an intensive investigation, the federal government charged Walter Leroy Moody Jr. with the murders of Judge Vance and of Robert E. Robinson, a black civil rights attorney in Savannah, Georgia, who had been killed in a separate explosion. Moody was eventually convicted ...
Due to the unpredictability of such circumstances, deaths of judges in active service are more likely to lead to judicial appointment controversies (where one party resists the confirmation of a judge appointed by a president of the other party); such deaths occasionally change the structure of the court itself, as legislators may seek to avoid changing the balance of a particular court by ...
It includes American judges that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Assassinated American judges" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The table below ranks all United States Supreme Court justices by time in office. [ C ] For five individuals confirmed for associate justice, and who later served as chief justice— Charles Evans Hughes , William Rehnquist , John Rutledge, Harlan F. Stone , and Edward Douglass White —their cumulative length of service on the court is measured.
During that time, he was attached to an organized crime task force (1982–1986) and the Civil Division (1986–1987). After his years as an Assistant United States Attorney, he became a state judge and served on the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division Two, from 1987 to 1991, and eventually became its vice-chief judge in 1991. He also served as ...
John Howland Wood Jr. (March 31, 1916 – May 29, 1979) was an American lawyer and judge from Texas.He served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas before being assassinated by contract killer Charles Harrelson outside Wood's home in San Antonio, in 1979.
Charles McMahon (left) and Darwin Judge (right). Charles McMahon (May 10, 1953 – April 29, 1975) [1] and Darwin Lee Judge (February 16, 1956 – April 29, 1975) [2] were the last two United States servicemen killed in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The two men, both U.S. Marines, were killed in a rocket attack one day before the Fall of Saigon.
House managers then requested time to prepare a response to Judge English. On March 5, 1926, the Senate set November 10 as the date for the trial to resume. [147] On December 11, 1926, the House took note of Judge English's resignation and requested the Senate drop the impeachment proceedings. [148]