Ronald L. Kuby (born July 31, 1956) is an American criminal defense and civil rights lawyer, radio talk show host, and television commentator.

[2] Kuby dropped out of college in 1974 and moved to St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he worked on a tugboat and developed an interest in West Indian ethnobotany and medicinal plants.

[10] While in college, Kuby interned with William Kunstler, a senior lawyer with 20 years' experience, notable for many of his sensational cases including the defense of the Chicago Seven.

[14] Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind cleric who headed the Egyptian-based militant group Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, accused of planning and encouraging terrorist attacks against Americans.

[16] Nico Minardos, the Hollywood TV and movie actor, accused in an FBI sting operation of conspiracy to ship arms to Iran.

They also represented El Sayyid Nosair, assassin of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane whom Kuby's father had admired, and the leftist radical turned health-care activist Dr. Alan Berkman.

[22] Kuby also won nearly a million dollars for members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club who were wrongfully arrested by the New York City Police Department.

[24] Kuby represented the appeal of Yusef Salaam, whose conviction in the 1989 Central Park jogger case was overturned in 2002, and who went on to be elected to the New York City Council.

"[26] Sliwa reacted angrily to his longtime co-host's testimony for the defense, calling him a "Judas", though Kuby was following the law by answering a subpoena to testify.

Kuby won Afzali's release on bail and negotiated a plea bargain to a reduced charge of lying to agents, with deportation in lieu of imprisonment.

They dismissed some of Golb's convictions, such as identify theft and aggravated harassment (striking down the latter as unconstitutionally vague and overbroad), but they upheld others, including criminal impersonation and forgery.

He won the 2001 release (followed by a combined $3.3 million judgment) for Anthony Faison and Charles Shepherd, who served close to 14 years for a murder they did not commit.

[37] The actual killer was subsequently indicted, having been named by a federal informant, but was not prosecuted successfully due to the Bronx DA's wrongful conviction of Clancy.

Jabbar Washington was freed in July 2017 after 20 years in prison, as a result of a joint investigation with Kuby and the Brooklyn DA's Conviction Review Unit.

[43] In October 2020, Kuby and the CRU exonerated another innocent man, Gerard Domond, who spent 27 years behind bars due to the prosecution's withholding of crucial exculpatory evidence.

[44] On July 15, 2022, one of Scarcella's biggest cases, the "Money Train" murder, was overturned and charges dismissed against three men, Thomas Malik, Vincent Ellerbe, and James Irons, all of whom served over two decades in prison.

[45] In January 2023, a Brooklyn judge vacated a murder conviction against Kareem Mayo, who had served 23 years of a 25 to life sentence, along with his cousin, Donnell Perkins (represented by Joel Rudin).

[47] Kuby and Trivedi also represented the environmental lawyer Steven Donziger in his 2021 trial for criminal contempt for failing to turn over sensitive materials to Chevron Corporation.

[54] Kuby is a frequent pundit and substitute anchor on Court TV and has appeared several times on the Discovery Channel program Oddities, offering legal advice.

[56] Unlike defense lawyers who usually suppress specifics about their residence, family, and habits, Kuby agreed in 2012 to be featured in the weekly New York Times "Sunday Routine" photo report on prominent or colorful New Yorkers.