Most Serious Charge Dismissed in Subway Trial; Lesser Charge Remains
Source: New York Times
Most Serious Charge Dismissed in Subway Trial; Lesser Charge Remains
Jurors in the Daniel Penny trial in Manhattan deadlocked on Friday. Next week they will begin deliberating a lesser charge against him in the death last year of Jordan Neely.
Prosecutors said Daniel Penny held Jordan Neely in a chokehold for more than six minutes as he died on the floor of a New York City subway car last year. Jefferson Siegel for The New York Times
By Hurubie Meko and Anusha Bayya
Dec. 6, 2024
Updated 5:36 p.m. ET
The Manhattan judge overseeing the case of a man accused in the choking death of a mentally ill subway passenger last year dismissed the most serious charge against him on Friday afternoon, leaving jurors to consider a lesser charge when they return to court next week.
The jurors on Friday deadlocked over whether the man, Daniel Penny, was guilty of manslaughter, leaving unresolved a case that has come to exemplify New York’s post-pandemic struggles. They will now consider whether he should be convicted of criminally negligent homicide, a charge that carries a lesser prison sentence.
After nearly three days of deliberations, the jurors sent two notes — one on Friday morning and a second during the afternoon — to the judge, Maxwell T. Wiley, saying that they could not come to a unanimous decision about whether Mr. Penny was guilty of manslaughter in the second degree.
After the jurors sent the first note, Justice Wiley responded by reading them a so-called Allen charge, official instructions for the jurors to resume their deliberations, with the goal of reaching an agreement through the reconsideration of differing opinions.
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