Tune in to a webinar on December 3 for an overview of New York’s sex offense laws and the harsh consequences of a sex offense conviction.
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Criminal cases in federal court are driven by mandatory minimum sentences. Drugs, guns, child pornography and sex trafficking (among others) all carry mandatory minimum sentences which used to mean that, if the government has the evidence and won't let you plead to a lesser crime, you do the time. That just might have changed today with…
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A year or so working as a reporter at 220 E. 42nd Street around 1993 completely changed my life. It was part of nearly four years I spent on the staff at the Daily News, once one of the largest-circulation publications in the world but already in the midst of a long, slow decline…
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Criminal cases in federal court are driven by mandatory minimum sentences. Drugs, guns, child pornography and sex trafficking (among others) all carry mandatory minimum sentences which used to mean that, if the government has the evidence and won't let you plead to a lesser crime, you do the time. That just might have changed today with…
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Amid calls to abolish the police — which would likely make most of us safer in most situations — the New York State legislature has enacted a welcome reform: on Friday, the measure to repeal Civil Rights Law 50-a was signed into law. That means cowardly cops can no longer hide behind this phony privacy law to keep people from finding out about discipline against them…
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For Immediate Release New York, NY June 3, 2020 - Miguel Richards was shot and killed by New York City police wearing body cameras on September 6, 2017. — June 4, 2020
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Every decent human being in America who saw the expression on Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin's face as he caused the death of George Floyd — June 1, 2020
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We are delighted to announce that Benjamin Notterman has joined the Law Office of Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma as an associate attorney. Mr. Notterman comes to — May 19, 2020
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New York City is home to it's own archipelago of three federal jails, three borough jails, eight functioning jails on Rikers Island, two locked prison — March 31, 2020
Read MoreI often say that our clients come to us on the worst day of their lives, the day they are arrested, or learned that a loved one was arrested and may be — March 18, 2020
Read MoreNot that anyone would want to ride the subways right now, but the New York City Bar Association has come out in strong opposition to a proposal that would — March 17, 2020
Read MoreThe Law Office of Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma is pleased to announce that Teresa McNamara has joined our office as the new Director of Marketing. Teresa, an — February 7, 2020
Read MoreThirteen years ago Nina Morrison, a staff attorney at the Innocence Project - the organization, founded by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, that spawned — January 27, 2020
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