Yup.People in America can live how they want to. However when they cross over into bothering the public it should be fair game for others to defend if police aren’t there. I understand the laws and we must follow them but they need to be changed. The normal can not be abused by the abnormal. I hope Penny gets off free. If not it tilts the balance letting these druggies act how they want to knowing nobody is going to do anything about it. All fights are dangerous and death is always a possible outcome whether that is the fighters goal or not.
He can't pardon Penny, as it's a state crime, not a federal one.Trump will pardon types like Penny, Rittenhouse and the January 6 insurrectionists.
Civilian individuals and posses will be emboldened into action in the MAGA crusades during Trump’s tenure and become judge, jury and jury with exoneration almost guaranteed.
You know that the prosecution often charges alternate offences in most jurisdictions, huh?Alvin Bragg trying to 'strong-arm' Daniel Penny jury into deciding on negligent homicide
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is trying to "strong-arm" the jury in the Daniel Penny case into deciding on a verdict by dismissing manslaughter charges when they appeared deadlocked, former U.S. assistant attorney 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 National Review.
The manslaughter charge required prosecutors to prove that Penny acted with recklessness when he put mentally ill homeless man Jordan Neely in a chokehold on May 1, 2023. Neely had barged onto a subway car while high on drugs, threatening to kill passengers during a psychotic episode, according to trial testimony.
The judge initially ruled that the jury could not deliberate on the second charge unless they found Penny not guilty of manslaughter by some reason other than that the chokehold was justified. However, after jurors said they were deadlocked a second time, Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Dafna Yoran asked to have the top charge dismissed to allow the jury to debate the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide, which carries a maximum punishment of four years in prison.
"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 said that he believes Bragg's strategy in the case against Penny was to push forward with two charges, manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, in order to maximize his chances in the court system.
"Unfortunately the strategy is working the way it's designed to work," McCarthy said on Fox News Channel on Friday.
In National Review, he said the prosecution should never have happened.
"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."
Alvin Bragg trying to 'strong-arm' Daniel Penny jury into deciding on negligent homicide: Andy McCarthy
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is trying to "strong-arm" the jury into convicting Daniel Penny on a lesser charge in the subway chokehold case, Andy McCarthy argues.www.foxnews.com
Its Bragg's team. But this thing is really eating you up Go chill out.Bragg is long gone from this prosecution. The judge and DA both don't want a hung jury and a re trial because that doubles the state resources that are used up. So they want a clean decision from the jury - guilty or not guilty - and not a mistrial through a hung jury.
That's why they're pulling the charge that's deadlocking the jury and having them decide on the lesser charge. To get a clear verdict.
This happens in every fucking court house in the English-speaking world multiple fucking times a day.
Oh I give spare change or leftover food if I’m exiting a restaurant and I see someone like that all the time. We just can’t tolerate the crazy peopleYup.
Street people bug you by holding out a used coffee cup for donations, you should definitely be able to get out of your car and strangle them to death. 100%!
When a guy is aggressively panhandling in the subway and says “I don’t care if i go to jail or if I die” he should be taken at his word as forfeiting his right to complain when his wish came true.The Canadian standard for crim negligence causing death is "reckless, gross negligence".
There's some leeway with a friendly jury for saying Penny was careless, but not grossly so.
But then, the cop who killed George Floyd by kneeling on his chest for several minutes probably raised the same defence. You have to draw the line somewhere. People can't just kill other humans and then say "Oops! Held on a few minutes too long, I guess!"