Oopsie...
Seems Bragg et al in NYC were a little TOO sure of themselves...
The Manhattan jury tasked with deciding Daniel Penny's fate has acquitted the 26-year-old architecture student of criminally negligent homicide, a Class E felony that carries a maximum sentence of four years in prison.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley agreed on Friday to dismiss the more serious charge, manslaughter in the second degree after the jury deadlocked repeatedly. Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran, who is prosecuting the case, had requested the manslaughter charge be dropped so the jury could take up the lesser charge. The 12-person panel has now acquitted Penny of the lesser charge.
Full article, HERE from PJ Media, and another from Fox News, HERE.
Once again, Bragg et al bowed to public pressure and indicted Penny, a good samaritan 10 days later, for murder because he was white and the other guy was black. The judge bent the rules, just like in the Trump case, but this time, the jurors didn't 'listen' and acquitted Penny! Yay!!!
Maybe, just maybe, a few folks up there are starting to take a hard look at what is going on in NYC and other blue cities... And they also have a 'little' illegal problem they're also trying to deal with...
However, they have destroyed Penny's life, and he will always be second guessing everything about helping others going forward. I feel for him, as this is going to make his life very difficult.
But hey, a win for the 'little guys', so I'm happy he beat the NYC 'system'!!!
Now he just has to fight off a civil suit from the estranged father... sigh...
Sadly, this is a classic case of "the process IS the punishment." Hope he relocates to much better place, where people still have rights, not privileges.
Poor guy will be dodging more than impulses of altruism for the rest of his life. I'm sure there are thousands out there who'd see him dead if they thought they could get away with it. I can remember decades ago when some locales passed "Good Samaritan" laws, wherein a person trying to be helpful couldn't be sued or otherwise punished for the negative outcome of a kind act, as long as due diligence was done. IMO, the looming death of Good Samaritanism is a bigger tragedy than the demise of a crazy subway man bent on mayhem.