Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg is attempting to “strong-arm” the jury within the Daniel Penny case into deciding on a verdict by dismissing manslaughter costs after they appeared deadlocked, former U.S. assistant lawyer Andy McCarthy says.
“Bragg added a baseless recklessness charge to the indictment so the jury would have two counts, increasing the odds of conviction by giving the jury something to compromise on,” McCarthy wrote in Nationwide Overview.
The manslaughter cost required prosecutors to show that Penny acted with recklessness when he put mentally sick homeless man Jordan Neely in a chokehold on Might 1, 2023. Neely had barged onto a subway automobile whereas excessive on medication, threatening to kill passengers throughout a psychotic episode, based on trial testimony.
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The decide initially dominated that the jury couldn’t deliberate on the second cost until they discovered Penny not responsible of manslaughter by some purpose apart from that the chokehold was justified. Nonetheless, after jurors mentioned they had been deadlocked a second time, Assistant Manhattan District Legal professional Dafna Yoran requested to have the highest cost dismissed to permit the jury to debate the lesser cost of criminally negligent murder, which carries a most punishment of 4 years in jail.
“Today, the jurors have been Allen-charged to try to strong-arm them into deciding the count despite indicating, after three days, that they were deadlocked,” McCarthy wrote.
McCarthy mentioned that he believes Bragg’s technique within the case towards Penny was to push ahead with two costs, manslaughter and criminally negligent murder, with a view to maximize his probabilities within the courtroom system.
“Unfortunately the strategy is working the way it’s designed to work,” McCarthy mentioned on Fox Information Channel on Friday.
In Nationwide Overview, he mentioned the prosecution ought to by no means have occurred.
“This was not remotely a recklessness case, where it could be said that Penny wantonly disregarded an obvious risk of death,” he wrote. “There is evidence that Penny moved Neely into a position that would make breathing easier, waited for the police to come and fully cooperated with them, and did not even know Neely was dead when he voluntarily spoke to police and explained what happened — that he wasn’t trying to hurt Neely, just subdue him until the police arrived.”
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Penny, a Marine veteran, is awaiting a jury’s resolution on a cost of criminally negligent murder within the 2023 demise of Jordan Neely on a New York Metropolis subway practice. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox Information Digital)
Different commentators, together with Claremont Institute senior fellow Jeremy Carl, responded angrily to the current courtroom developments.
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“Kyle Rittenhouse was clearly not guilty, but the Daniel Penny case makes the Kyle Rittenhouse case look like a model of blind justice,” Carl wrote. “He is unquestionably in every way a hero and the prosecution against him a total disgrace.”
“I don’t think the left fully grasps how much they are radicalizing people when a Marine who saved a bunch of people on the subway from a violent person with mental illness yelling ‘someone is going to die today’ is demonized,” former “The View” co-host Meghan McCain argued. “Daniel Penny did nothing wrong, you lunatics.”
Fox Information’ Michael Ruiz and CB Cotton contributed to this report.
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