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Recently, attorney and former prosecutor Matthew Galluzzo was quoted in NBC News about the NFL’s creation of a commission designed to investigate claims of domestic violence and sexual assault by its players and staff. Mr. Galluzzo, a former sex crimes and domestic violence prosecutor, spoke approvingly of one of the appiontees, Lisa Friel. The article…

Matthew Galluzzo, a former prosecutor that has served as a consultant to the National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa, recently appeared on BBC News (TV) on September 11, 2014, to discuss the verdict in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial. To read more about his thoughts on the verdict, click here for newyorkcriminaldefenseblawg.com

There has been a media firestorm about NFL running back Ray Rice’s assault of his wife Janay Rice. While exiting an elevator in Atlantic City, NJ, Ray Rice – a powerfully built football player – punched his wife in the face and appeared to knock her unconscious. He then dragged her along the floor of…

Over the course of two days (yesterday and today), Judge Masipa issued her verdict in the South African murder trial of former paralympian sprinter Oscar Pistorius. After a lengthy explanation of her factual findings and legal conclusions, she declared him not guilty of murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, but convicted him of a lesser charge…

Matthew Galluzzo, a civil rights and criminal defense attorney in Manhattan, was recently quoted as an expert in the New York Post concerning possible criminal charges for the police officers that caused the recent death of Eric Garner. The story is available here: https://nypost.com/2014/08/02/cop-who-used-deadly-chokehold-should-be-charged-sharpton/

On July 24, 2014, Zack Johnson of The Law Office of Matthew Galluzzo was quoted as an expert in the New York Times regarding arrests in New York City for fake IDs. Mr. Johnson has successfully defended numerous underaged individuals charged with possessing fake IDs throughout the city. The text of the article is available…

When a person is arrested for a crime in New York State, the immediate concerns are to avoid jail time and to protect against criminal conviction. However, for certain licensed professionals and employees of banks and other FDIC-insured institutions, other collateral concerns must be addressed at the earliest possible time. In fact, critical mistakes can…

Today, it was announced that the New York State Senate passed legislation criminalizing the act of “revenge porn”. The bill needs to be approved by the New York Assembly in order to become law, but we suspect that it will. We have previously written about revenge porn and New York state’s need for a criminal…

Recently, federal law enforcement authorities announced the arrests of 71 people in the New York City area in connection with an alleged child pornography production and distribution ring. The federal charges most often applied to the creation, manufacture, possession and distribution of obscene materials involving minors are typically the following: 18 USC § 1466A, 18…

The great British jurist Sir Edward Coke has been quoted as stating regarding corporations that, “It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto–it is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.” Perhaps because of the view that…