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- A Little Drug Relief?
- Welcoming attorney Shane Finn to ZMO Law
- Is Matt Gaetz a sex trafficker?
- Victory in the Fourth Department
- Brooklyn MDC? Too awful to sentence you there.
- Who killed Dr. Sheikh?
- How long do I have to be cuffed and shackled to this hospital bed?
- Justice Behind Bars: Judge Furman calls out the nightmarish conditions at the Brooklyn MDC
- Ten Years of Freedom
- Chief Judge Wilson, Restorative Justice, and Keeping Your Cool on New York's Streets
- In New York, Rape is now Rape -- what does that even mean?
- Governor Hochul vetoed bills aimed to curb police misconduct and overturn wrongful convictions
- How the First Woman Supreme Court Justice Set the Rules for Criminal Lawyers
- New Yorkers Get a Second Chance with the Clean Slate Act
- Last Call for the Adult Survivors Act
- Did your FBI handler coerce you into sex?
- A ZMO Law firm update
- The Power of a Defense Expert
- The police were right to free Daniel Penny. They were wrong to arrest Tracy McCarter.
- Felipe Rodriguez and Police Accountability
- The Closing Lookback Window for Survivors of Sexual Assault
- Trump has been indicted. Now what?
- Donald Trump and the Manhattan Grand Jury
- I was sexually harassed in a strip club. Can I sue?
- Tracy McCarter: Free at Last
- I am Adnan Syed
- What do you mean they searched my house? Warrants, receipts and affidavits explained
- A kind of justice
- I'm a First Amendment lawyer. Johnny Depp's verdict won't survive appeal.
- Free Speech for All?
- Can the Supreme Court survive the stench?
- What the sentences for child pornography are supposed to be
- Federal Mandatory Minimum? You can still get compassionate release
- Can I use the internet if I am convicted of a sex offense?
- No Mayor Adams, Rolling Back Reforms is Not the Answer to Gun Violence
- Reforming Laws Affecting People Convicted of Sex Offenses
- What Do District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s New Policies Mean for Manhattan?
- Exonerating James Pugh
- When is a Doctor Actually a Drug Dealer?
- Is the Kenosha verdict a tragedy?
- The Odyssey of James Pugh
- The Dangers of False Rhetoric Around Bail Reform
- Recidivism and Federal Sentencing
- Justice for Tracy McCarter
- Some thoughts on Mother's Day from a criminal defense lawyer
- Derek Chauvin's knee is still on your neck
- Was George Floyd murdered over a counterfeit $20 bill?
- The end of police propaganda? New NYPD crime statistics show the sky is not falling
- Sex, Race, and Violence in Atlanta
- When getting arrested is a death sentence
- New York's sex offender registration system is broken. The time has come to fix it.
- Did cops plant a toy gun after killing Miguel Richards?
- Welcome 2021
- DNA, Racism, and the Assault on Democracy
- Principal Attorney Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma to Present on “Sex Offense Laws 101”
- A New Way to Avoid Mandatory Minimum Sentences
- Is a newspaper a newspaper if it does not have a newsroom?
- The culture of sexual abuse in New York prisons
- Gov. Andrew Cuomo announces executive clemency for ZMOLAW client
- A New Tool in Our Fight against Police Misconduct
- ZMOLAW Client: Time to Repeal the Law Bad Police Hide Under
- Why Derek Chauvin thought he could get away with murder
- ZMOLAW adds attorney Ben Notterman
- “Release as many vulnerable people as possible”
- Criminal Defense in the Time of Coronavirus
- Should People Accused of Sex Offenses Be Banned from Public Transit?
- Why clemency is good
- Meet Our New Director of Marketing
- Freeing Felipe Rodriguez
- “I will be absolutely, completely free”
- There were 912,643 people on the U.S. Sex Offender Registry last year. Now? Nobody knows.
- The Whistleblower Complaint and the Transcript: A Criminal Trial Lawyer’s Perspective
- The judge gave the FBI a warrant to break into computers in Virginia. They used it in New York. Good faith?
- In Maryland, you can be prosecuted for exploiting…yourself
- Who Killed Jeffrey Epstein?
- Celebrating Five Years of Freedom
- Is there illegal child pornography on YouTube?
- District court lowers sentence from 225 to 200 months after appeal. Still too long, appeals court says.
- Busted in NY? Three Ways it Will Be Easier to Win Your Case
- Conviction Overturned for Client Accused of Importing over 100 Kilos of Heroin
- Can Border Agents Search Your Cell Phone?
- Court Rules NYPD Can’t Hide Body-Worn Camera Footage Behind § 50-a Law
- SDNY Says Prison Brass Can be Sued for Sex Abuse of Inmate
- Countdown: Child Sex Abuse Survivors Have Less Than a Year to Sue for Damages
- Big Changes to Deadlines in Child Sex Abuse Cases
- Mandatory Minimum Sentences and Federal Child Pornography Charges
- The Federal Criminal Justice Reform that Wasn’t
- Spending Thanksgiving at Home
- A Holistic Defense Leads to Less Time Locked Up
- Freedom…to Marry
- Margulis-Ohnuma Client Antonio Yarbough Received Highest Payout for NYPD Abuse in Last Five Years
- Michael Cohen and Plea Agreements
- Governor Cuomo Signs Prosecutorial Conduct Commission Bill into Law, Sort of
- Federal Judge in a Position to Know Urges Governor to Sign Prosecutorial Oversight Bill
- Test the DNA!
- Want Cell Site Information? Get a Warrant.
- Prosecutorial Conduct Commission Inches Towards Enactment
- A Prosecutorial Misconduct Commission for New York State?
- Appeals Court: Sex Offender’s Failure to Disclose Social Media Account is “not a crime”
- Some Thoughts on Eric Schneiderman
- The Crackdown on Sex Websites
- No More Sex in the City?
- ZMOLAW Adds Attorney Victoria Medley
- Sex Offender Registration and Drugs
- Felipe Rodriguez is Front Page News
- Lawsuit sheds light on retribution against victims of prison sex abuse
- Where do federal sex offenders go to prison?
- Feds & Dutch Authorities Shut Dark Web Drug Markets
- Second Circuit Revisits Application of Fourth Amendment to Stored Digital Information
- Child Pornography and “Substantive Reasonableness”
- New Charging Policy Will Increase Mass Incarceration
- New Associate Adam Elewa Brings Technology Expertise to ZMO LAW PLLC
- Fundraising for Felipe Rodriguez
- A Gift of Freedom for the New Year
- Play Pen, the NIT Warrant, and Malware
- A Child Sex Crime Sting that Did Not Work
- Sixth Circuit: Okay to Consider Jury’s Belief that Child Pornography Sentence Too Harsh
- Can you get a life sentence for making child pornography?
- Rule of Construction: If a Statute is Ambiguous, the Sex Offender Loses
- A Word about the Jury, the Press, and the Death of Mauricio Jaquez
- Trial Begins Monday in Police Shooting Case
- Is it Time to Come Off the Sex Offender Registry?
- Sentencing Commission Video Now Available
- Risk Reduced to Level One After Almost Twenty Years
- ZMO to Testify at U.S. Sentencing Commission Hearing on Crimes of Violence
- Does New York City Have A Policy of Coercive Interrogation?
- “The Pointless Banishment of Sex Offenders”
- Watch What You Plea To
- This is News? Prison Sex Abuse Violates the Constitution
- Does a Tragic Case Merit a Fifteen Year Mandatory Minimum Prison Sentence?
- The High Cost of Being a Sex Offender
- Zach Margulis-Ohnuma to Address False Confessions at Free CLE
- Do You Need a Sentencing Video?
- No Sex Offender Treatment in Prison? No Problem!
- A Word about Baltimore, Charges, and Grand Juries
- Judge: Cops Who Shot Barricaded EDP in the Back of the Head Won’t Stand Trial
- Police Shooting Case Headed for Trial
- NY Sex Offender Residency Rules Struck Down
- Journalist Challenges Court Secrecy
- A Record 125 Exonerations in 2014
- Video Now Available for Wrongful Convictions Panel
- A New Look at Old Convictions in Brooklyn
- Pedophilia, Mental Illness and Child Pornography
- RoundUp: The Robot Policing Your File Sharing Account
- You Don’t Want to Get Arrested in Brooklyn
- LimeWire Child Pornography Conviction Reversed
- SDNY: Teen Inmates at Rikers are Routinely Abused
- Flubbed Jury Instructions on Entrapment Leads to Reversal of Child Porn Distribution Conviction
- Reduced Sentences for Federal Drug Offenders
- New York High Court Strikes Down Cyberbullying Law
- New York’s High Court Rejects Child Pornography Offenders’ Claims Based on Board of Examiners Position Statement
- Choice Quotes from the Late Harold Baer
- Federal Agents to Start Recording Post-Arrest Statements
- Paying Respects on Mother’s Day
- New York Sex Offender Registration and Child Pornography
- Crusading Comic Book Artist Al Feldstein Passes Away at 88
- How Many Innocent People are on Death Row?
- Supreme Court Limits Financial Liability of Child Pornography Possessors
- Child Pornography Victim Disappointed in Paroline Ruling
- What Would You Need After Getting Out of Prison After 22 Years Because Someone Else Murdered Your Family?
- Football Coach Takes the Field After Child Pornography Charges Dropped
- Federal Drug Sentences Reduced
- Sharlene Morris Joins the ZMO Law PLLC
- Proving “Knowing Distribution” of Child Pornography
- Do I Really Need a Lawyer?
- The Other “Great Writ”: The Second Circuit Revives Coram Nobis
- Sex Crimes Advocacy Website Re-Designed
- Antonio Yarbough and Zach Margulis-Ohnuma Appear on WPIX Morning News
- Tony Yarbough Freed!
- Tony Yarbough: Is this the Endgame?
- Easy-to-use Statistics from the Bureau of Prisons
- Free Tony Yarbough Page Updated
- A Discussion of the Reingold, Corsey and Kaplan Cases
- When Can Police Lie to Get a Confession?
- Lower Sentences for Federal Drug Offenders?
- Ryan Ferguson: “incredibly easy” to get wrongly convicted
- Updated Info on Tony Yarbough Now Available
- Case Against Driving School Operator Represented by Margulis-Ohnuma Tossed on Federalism Grounds
- Judge Weinstein: “We continue using the criminal law to unnecessarily crush the lives of our young.”
- DNA Evidence Exonerates Margulis-Ohnuma Client Tony Yarbough
- Sixth Circuit Finds that Forcible Cavity Search “Shocks the Conscience”
- Do You Still Have to Tell What You Know? The New Holder Memorandum on Mandatory Minimums
- Deconstructing the Federal Fraud Guidelines
- NACDL Asks U.S. Sentencing Commission to Focus on Fraud, Child Porn Guidelines
- The Supreme Court Rules on Ex Post Facto and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines
- Idriss Abdelrahman, Falsely Accused of Supporting Al Qaeda, Returns to Mali
- Supreme Court Approves Cheek Swabs
- Should Sex Offender Registration Risk Level Determinations be Scientifically Validated?
- Cheek Swabs
- Attorneys Margulis-Ohnuma and Perlmutter Sue State Officials for Allegedly Tolerating Sex Abuse in Prison
- Justice Delayed in the Bronx?
- Big Firm Lawyers Joke About Overbilling Clients
- Scrap the Sentencing Guidelines?
- The Sentencing Commission Reports on Federal Child Pornography Offenses
- A Spate of Supreme Court Decisions
- Do the Sentencing Guidelines Matter? The Commission Weighs In
- “The drug trafficking offense guideline was born broken”
- Congress Quietly Increases Child Pornography Penalties
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