Amy B. Marion

Ms. Marion is an experienced trial attorney who has obtained successful and significant results for her clients. Beginning her career in the Criminal Defense Division of New York City’s Legal Aid Society, Ms. Marion obtained numerous acquittals in what Court TV reported as unwinnable cases. To this day she continues to defend serious felony offenses and related civil litigation. Ms. Marion also focuses her practice on false arrests, malicious prosecutions, employment discrimination, fair housing violations, voting rights, First Amendment torts, sexual assault, harassment, and religious corporation disputes.

Ms. Marion has obtained multi-million-dollar settlements in wrongful conviction cases; successfully tried and defended one of the state’s first Child Victims Act trials; and has successfully established actual innocence in litigation brought pursuant to Criminal Procedure Law § 440.

Ms. Marion is a Commissioner for New York State’s Commission on Prosecutorial Conduct, she serves on the legislative committee of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and is a past president of the Nassau County Criminal Courts Bar Association.

Ms. Marion is admitted to practice in New York State, the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.

Featured cases successfully litigated by Ms. Marion include the following:

Suffolk County Lawsuit Settlements Top $29 Million

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/suffolk-police-settlement-payments-bmf8jh3u

Ex-Suffolk County police Chief James Burke accused of covering up revenge beating

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7986849/loeb-v-burke/

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/lawsuit-claims-suffolk-police-chief-beat-suspect-while-chained-to-floor/

Victim of the Empire State building shooting case

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Empire_State_Building_shooting

Jail sexual assault case

https://www.longislandpress.com/2013/10/21/woman-sues-nassau-cop-for-alleged-sex-abuse/

Woman on Upper West Side calls 911 – and gets arrested

https://abc7ny.com/post/woman-calls-911-for-husbands-heart-emergency-gets-arrested/119668/

Man acquitted of criminal charges files lawsuit claiming Nassau law enforcement violated civil rights

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/man-accused-of-assault-resisting-cleared-as-cops-actions-put-on-trial-v95594

Mom sues Long Island police for shooting her unarmed son in his bedroom

https://www.irishcentral.com/news/mom-sues-long-island-police-for-shooting-her-unarmed-son-in-his-bedroom-159239865-237510941

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/kevin-callahan-police-shooting-trial-wraps-up-p06212

Former soccer coach Nick Hillary has filed an intent to sue St. Lawrence County and the village of Potsdam for malicious prosecution.

https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/33172/20170104/nick-hillary-moves-to-sue-slc-potsdam-and-48-individuals

Jul 12, 2014 — Howell’s lawyer, Amy Marion, has filed a lawsuit against Nassau County

https://www.nydailynews.com/2014/07/12/long-island-man-20-beaten-by-cops-in-april-suffers-physical-pain-emotional-damage/

Bar Admissions

New York State Bar Association
- New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
  - Legislative Committee
- Nassau County Criminal Courts Bar Association Foundation
  - Past President, Member
- Federal Bar Council
  - Member

Education

Hofstra University School of Law, Juris Doctorate
- Honors: Inns of Court Scholarship Recipient
University of Massachusetts, Amherst Massachusetts, Bachelor of Arts, Social Thought and Political Economics

Honors and Awards

Long Island Business News Power 25 in Law List 2022
New York Metro Super Lawyers – 2013 through 2024
Top Women Attorneys in Metro New York – 2015, 2016, 2017
The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Lawyers – 2014

Publications

Attacking the Introduction of Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome Testimony (New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Atticus, Volume 25 Number 2, Summer 2013)
Reasonableness: Has It Withstood the Test of Time? (New York Law Journal, Outside Counsel, September 12, 2013)
Prison Reform: A Tug-of-War Between Business and Humanity (TheLaw.TV, October 9, 2013)
How To Retain An Attorney (TheLaw.TV, 2013)
Decisions and cases published in The New York Law Journal, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsday, The Daily News, and The Associated Press.

Professional Associations and Memberships

New York State Association of Criminal Defense
- Legislative Committee
Nassau County Criminal Courts Bar Association Foundation
- Past President, Member
Nassau County Bar Association
- Member
Committee for a Sustainable Waterfront
- Founding Member and Counsel
Sea Cliff Open Government
- Founding Member and Counsel
Hempstead Harbor Democratic Club
- Founding Member
Nassau County Bar Association’s Judiciary Committee
- Member
Federal Bar Council
- Member
Queens County Bar Association
- Member
Nassau County Women’s Bar Association
- Member

Representative Matters