Thursday, 26 December 2024

BREAKING: Daniel Penny Trial: Manslaughter Charge Dropped, But It’s Not All Good News


Judge Maxwell Wiley dismissed the manslaughter charge against Daniel Penny after jury couldn’t agree.

Jurors will now deliberate on the lesser charge of ‘criminally negligent homicide.’

That charge carries up to four years in prison.

But that should be dropped as well.

Why?

Because it wasn’t the chokehold that caused Jordan Neely’s death.

Even the forensic pathologist points it out:

This whole case is nonsense.

A great example of a two-tiered system.

Fox News reports:

Jurors on the Daniel Penny chokehold trial returned to deliberations for a fourth day Friday for just an hour before telling the court they could not come to an agreement on the top charge, manslaughter, as they weigh the fate of a 26-year-old Marine veteran and architecture student accused of killing a mentally ill homeless man who threatened to kill people on a Manhattan subway car.

Around 11 a.m., the jurors sent a note to the court stating, “We the jury request instructions from Judge [Maxwell] Wiley. At this time, we are unable to come to a unanimous vote on count 1 – manslaughter in the second degree.”

The judge sent them back to deliberate more, but they told the court shortly after 3 p.m. that they still could not reach a unanimous decision.

The charge requires prosecutors to prove that Penny acted with recklessness when he grabbed Jordan Neely in a chokehold. Neely had barged onto the train while high on drugs, threatening to kill passengers during a psychotic episode, according to trial testimony.

Watch more here from Fox News:

In case you’ve forgotten, he was still alive when police arrived.

Also:

But here’s the thing….

It’s not actually good news, no time to celebrate just yet.

In fact, his Defense team actually RESISTED the dismissal because what it really does is dangles the lesser charge of “criminally negligent homicide” in front of the jury and entices them to choose that instead:

As Charlie Kirk points it, it’s so unusual it might not even be legal in the first place:

Breaking: The judge in the Daniel Penny case has DISMISSED the first manslaughter charge against him.

But don’t celebrate yet: This is actually a desperate bid to get him convicted on the second charge, and his defense team opposed it for that reason. The whole move may well be illegal.

New York is outrageously obsessed with putting an innocent hero in prison.

Where is the ACLU to defend Daniel Penny?

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.

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