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Agnew, Spiro
Berry, Chuck
Bush, George Walker
Calley, Jnr, William
Clinton, Hillary Diane Rodham
De Lorean, John
Fromme, Lynette Alice Squeaky
Gates, Horatio
Guiteau, Charles
Helms, Richard
Jackson, Michael
MacArthur, Douglas
Mitchell, William Billy
Nixon, Richard Mulhouse
North, Oliver
Ray, James Earl
Shay, Daniel
Sirhan, Sirhan
Tyson, Mike
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London
My Lai
Sacramento
Santa Maria
Washington
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| | 1780 | Gates, Horatio | |
| 18th Aug Reinstated after a trial
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| 1788 | Shay, Daniel | |
| Condemned to death by the Massachusetts Supreme Court but later given a pardon
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| 1881 | Guiteau, Charles | |
| Guiteau is found guilty of assassinating Garfield, despite his lawyers raising an insanity defense, & sentenced to death
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| 1925 | Mitchell, William Billy | |
| 17th Dec Found guilty of conduct prejudicial to the good of the armed services
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| 1945 | MacArthur, Douglas | |
| 22nd Sep Instructs the creation of an international war tribunal to try Japanese war criminals
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| 1968 | Sirhan, Sirhan | |
| 97 June Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination
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| 1969 | Ray, James Earl | |
| Mar London On the advice of his attorney Percy Foreman, Ray makes guilty plea to avoid a trial conviction and thus the possibility of receiving the death penalty, Ray is sentenced to a 99-year prison term
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| 1970 | Calley, Jnr, William | |
| 12th Nov My Lai Goes on trial for his part played in the My Lai massacre
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| 1971 | Calley, Jnr, William | |
| 31st Mar My Lai Convicted by a military tribunal of killing civilians at My Lai
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| 31st Mar My Lai William Calley is sentenced to life in prison, reduced to 20 yrs
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| 1973 | Agnew, Spiro | |
| Fined $10,000 and put on three years' probation & later disbarred by the State of Maryland
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| 1974 | Nixon, Richard Mulhouse | |
| 9th May Washington The House Judiciary Committee opens impeachment hearings on Nixon
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| 1975 | Fromme, Lynette Alice Squeaky | |
| 17th Dec Sacramento Sentenced to life in prison for her attempted assassination of President Ford
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| 1977 | Helms, Richard | |
| Washington Convicted by a Congressional Committee for divulging secrets to the public
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| 1979 | Berry, Chuck | |
| 7th June Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion
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| 1982 | De Lorean, John | |
| Accuses the government of entrapment & is acquitted
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| Charged with conspiring to sell cocaine worth $24m to raise funds for his company
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| Tried & convicted for drunk driving
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| 1987 | North, Oliver | |
| 7th July Gives public testimony on the Iran Contra affair
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| 1989 | North, Oliver | |
| Fined $150,000
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| 31st Jan Jury selection begins in the trial of former National Security Council aide Oliver North, charged in connection with the Iran-Contra affair
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| 12th Feb The special prosecutor in the Iran-Contra case and the Justice Department reaches an agreement on protecting classified materials aimed at allowing the trial of Oliver North to proceed
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| 1990 | North, Oliver | |
| 7th July Declares in front of the Iran-Contra hearings his actions were sanctioned by superiors
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| 1991 | Tyson, Mike | |
| 19th July Boxer Mike Tyson had sex with Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant. On September 9, World for the year 1991">1991, an Indiana Grand Jury votedsto indict Tyson on three counts, including one for the rape of Washington
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| 22nd July Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, charged she'd been raped by boxer Mike Tyson in an Indianapolis hotel room 3 days earlier, Tyson is later convicted of rape and served three years in prison
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| 1992 | Tyson, Mike | |
| 10th Feb Tyson is convicted and imprisoned
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| 1996 | Clinton, Hillary Diane Rodham | |
| Becomes the only First Lady to be subpoenaed, testifying before a federal grand jury as a consequence of the Whitewater controversy
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| 2005 | Jackson, Michael | |
| 31st Jan Santa Maria Pleads his innocence before his trial for alleged child molestation
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| 2007 | Bush, George Walker | |
| 16th June Three Iraqi army officials, including Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein who was known as "Chemical Ali, are convicted and sentenced to death for carrying out the murder of about 50,000 Kurds in World for the year 1988">1988-what was called the Anfal campaign
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