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A ZMO Law client has been awarded $550k in damages after being sexually assaulted and traumatized by a correction officer while she was an inmate.

ZMO Law attorney Tess Cohen explains the unusual partnership between the New York Attorney General’s office and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office that is pursuing the criminal case against former president Donald Trump.

In his closing arguments Monday, Zhukov’s lawyer, Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma, compared his client to a businessman selling water to a grocer, who then uses it to water down the milk he sells. “You don’t go after the water seller in that analogy,” Margulis-Ohnuma said. “It’s the person who’s claiming that it’s real who is the fraudster.”

ZMO Law PLLC heads to trial for the first time in over a year in a case that tests the applicability of the wire fraud statute to machine-generated internet ad traffic. 

In an article exploring reaction to a recent report from the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers regarding trial penalty, Law360 interviewed ZMO Law PLLC attorney Tess Cohen. “Banishing the minimums is the most urgent point of reform,” explained Cohen. “Mandatory minimums remain the primary driver of pretrial penalties and the reason people don’t exercise their right to trial.”

ZMO Law PLLC suit against the New York City police officers who shot and killed Miguel Richards alleges the officers planted of a toy gun after the shooting. 

Margulis-Ohnuma’s client, Felipe Rodriguez, was interviewed and featured on Telemundo. “I never lost faith or hope,” says Rodriguez, who regained his freedom after 27 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

“Courts can only do so much without legislative authorization, and choose to do less because of institutional and political concerns,” said Associate Attorney Benjamin Notterman, in an article analyzing the startlingly few reprieves granted to eligible, vulnerable inmates in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma was quoted in an article about Harvey Weinstein’s sentencing, and the implications of this “historical litigation.”

Margulis-Ohnuma’s client Felipe Rodriguez was highlighted in a NY Times opinion piece that explores the power and need for clemency in America’s justice system.

Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma and Victoria Medley were interviewed by WGRZ-2 about their new lawsuit against the NY State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

The ZMO Law PLLC and the Law Offices of Daniel A. McGuinness P.C. sued high-ranking officials of the NY State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision for permitting the sexual assault of five female inmates and covering up those assaults.

“This is a once-in-a-career case,” explained Margulis-Ohnuma in closing arguments.

“The chains have come off. God has taken them off and said, ‘Okay, son, now you are free,’” says Marguils-Ohnuma client Felipe Rodriguez, about how it feels to be exonerated for a murder 30 years later.

Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma, in coordination with the Innocence Project, secured the final exoneration of Felipe Rodriguez for a murder he did not commit.

Margulis-Ohnuma’s client, two years after being granted clemency, is now officially exonerated. “I will be absolutely, completely free,” he said of the exoneration.

The Washington Post quoted sex crimes attorney Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma about the high-profile Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.

The ZMO Law PLLC and the Law Offices of Daniel A. McGuinness P.C. filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the family of Miguel Antonio Richards after he was shot and killed on video by police in September 2017. 

After being used unwittingly as bait to catch a predatory corrections officer, a female inmate refused to cooperate with prison investigators. So they put her in solitary confinement, then guards retaliated against her once she finally spoke up. Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma and Daniel McGuinness are suing corrections officials for the physical, mental, and psychological trauma she sustained.