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
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I 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 MoreHave a look at David Leonhardt's recent NY Times newsletter, which posits that executive clemency is a critical component of our current criminal justice — February 24, 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
Read More"Motion Granted." With those words, the Hon. Joseph Zayas of Queens Supreme Court vacated the murder conviction and dismissed the indictment against — December 30, 2019
Read MoreGuest column by William Dobbs, Esq. from The Dobbs Wire. Is the sex offense registry growing or shrinking? Hard to tell because the long-time keeper of — October 13, 2019
Read MoreThe past week was one of extraordinary revelations relating to foreign policy and corruption at the top of the government of the United States. The public — September 29, 2019
Read MoreTwelve federal appeals courts have said that the FBI acted in good faith when they used a Virginia warrant to search thousands of computers around the — September 13, 2019
Read MoreIn the latest perversion of the laws against child pornography, Maryland's highest court late last month upheld the conviction of a teenage girl for — September 9, 2019
Read MoreDefense attorneys were turned away from the high rise federal jail in lower Manhattan known as the Metropolitan Correction Center on Saturday morning. The — August 12, 2019
Read MoreThe clouds parted just in time for Antonio Yarbough to enjoy a piece of cheesecake on a Manhattan rooftop last Thursday. He was celebrating five years — June 23, 2019
Read MoreAn article in today's New York Times suggests that there is an "open gate for pedophiles" on YouTube because of the way the video hosting service suggests — June 3, 2019
Read MoreA 200-month sentence imposed on a first-time child pornography offender was thrown out by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday because the judge — May 13, 2019
Read MoreThis year's New York State budget passed earlier this month with the most sweeping criminal justice reforms in at least a generation. The changes go into — April 23, 2019
Read MoreJudge Raymond Dearie of the Eastern District of New York ruled yesterday that ZMOLAW client Adamou Djibo is entitled to a new trial because the government — April 9, 2019
Read MoreImagine you are met on the tarmac getting off a plane at JFK Terminal Two by armed customs officers. They tell you to come with them. They drive you to a — March 28, 2019
Read MorePolice in New York have been fighting to block the release of raw, unedited body-worn camera footage by claiming that the footage is a “personnel record” — March 13, 2019
Read MoreTop New York State officials claimed that they cannot be sued for the sex abuse, cover-up, and retaliation against Yekatrina Pusepa, a female inmate at — February 24, 2019
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