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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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 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 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 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 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 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 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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