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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We are pleased to announce that the governor of New York has granted a sentence commutation to our client, Teara Fatico, reducing her sentence in connection with a 2011 burglary by two years. She will be eligible for release on parole in January 2021…
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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
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