RON KUBY
Ron Kuby is one of the most well-known and well-regarded practitioners in the field of criminal defense and civil rights. Mr. Kuby has successfully defended hundreds of clients facing serious criminal charges, from murder, manslaughter, criminal negligent homicide, felony assault and robbery charges; to white-collar crimes such as money laundering and organized crime allegations; to criminal conspiracies; and international terrorism charges. Kuby has unparalleled experience in handling civil rights cases, involving false arrests and malicious prosecutions, police misconduct and brutality, First Amendment violations, employment discrimination and retaliation, and racial, religious, and sexual orientation discrimination.
Representative criminal cases include: Sheikh Rahman, accused of bombing the World Trade Center; Colin Ferguson, the Long Island Railroad gunman; accused airplane hijackers; Malcolm X's daughter, charged with conspiracy to murder Minister Louis Farrakhan; Jesse Friedman, whose story is featured in the acclaimed film Capturing the Friedmans; dozens of conscientious objectors, from all four branches of the military.
In the area of civil rights, Kuby secured a $43 million jury verdict against Bernard Hugo Goetz, the notorious subway gunman who gunned down four young black men in 1984. He also represented Spencer Tunick whose First Amendment rights were trampled upon by authorities intent on banning his photography of mass nudes in public and Anthony Faison and Charles Shepard who spent 14 years in prison for a crime they didn't commit.