December 6, 2015
Brooklyn judge nixes iPhone evidence in heroin case because authorities unlawfully used passcode
After an illegal search, a Brooklyn judge will not allow evidence obtained from an iPhone belonging to a Margulis-Ohuma client in an impending case.
December 6, 2015
Trafficking in Terror
Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma’s case was profiled in a New Yorker article debunking the false connection between Al Qaeda and Saharan drug trafficking.
May 8, 2015
Judge Holds Officers’ Actions in Fatal Shooting Immune, Except for Final Bullet
Sgt. William Flores must stand trial to determine whether the final bullet he shot at Mauricio Jaquez in 2009 was “reasonable.” Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma, who represents Jaquez’s estate in the civil case against Flores, says the family is looking forward to their day in court.
February 4, 2015
Man Jailed in ’92 Killings and Later Cleared Sues New York City
Margulis-Ohnuma files a lawsuit against the city of New York on behalf of client Antonio Yarbough. Yarbough was exonerated and released after being wrongfully imprisoned for nearly 22 years.
November 22, 2014
EXCLUSIVE: Brooklyn man who wrongfully spent 21 years in prison for triple homicide receives $3.6 million from state
“He won’t have to worry about money for quite a long time,” Margulis-Ohnuma told The Daily News, indicating that the financial security would allow his client to take a separate federal lawsuit against the city and the NYPD all the way to trial.
June 17, 2014
Unit Confronts ‘Staggering’ Conviction Review Caseload
Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma praises the new Brooklyn District Attorney’s “remarkable flushing out of a very, very bad era.”
February 9, 2014
After decades in prison over murders, DNA evidence frees 2 New York men
“Anybody looking at this evidence with an open mind would see that there is no chance in the world that Tony murdered his mother and these two little girls,” his lawyer Zachary Magulis-Ohnuma said.
January 10, 2014
Hamil: Tony Yarbough’s Brooklyn murder conviction should be reversed
After speaking by phone to ZMOLAW client Antony Yarbough, Daily News journalist Denis Hamil came to the same conclusion Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma has: Antonio Yarbough is innocent.
January 10, 2014
Wrongfully jailed for murder, Tony Yarbough finally has gravestone for mom, sister
Client Antonio Yarbough expressed his gratitude to an anonymous donor, who provided a gravestone for Yarbough’s mother and sister in a previously unmarked grave. Yarbough, who was falsely convicted of slaughtering his family in 1992 and was recently exonerated, had hoped to purchase a gravestone once he secured employment.
January 10, 2014
Three New Yorkers plead guilty to global ATM theft
Margulis-Ohnuma client stepped up and “took responsibility” by turning over stolen funds and accepting a guilty plea for his part in what authorities are calling a “worldwide ATM withdrawal campaign.”
January 10, 2014
Judge throws out charges against Brooklyn driving school operators who plead guilty to helping students cheat
Defense attorneys Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma and Michele Gelernt were successful in their argument that their clients, a husband-and-wife team, had been charged with the wrong crimes, leading to dismissal of the charges.