Marine Corps veteran Daniel Penny said he wants to thank the jury that acquitted him of manslaughter in the 2023 strangulation death of Jordan Neely.
“I want to hug them. I want to thank them. Yeah, for sure. It takes a lot of courage to stand up for me, especially in this climate in New York City,” he said. “Five” co-host Judge Jeanine Pirro appeared in Wednesday's preview of an exclusive interview that will air on Fox Nation.
Penny's attorneys, Stephen Reiser and Thomas Kenniff, argued that Judge Maxwell Wiley dismissed the second-degree manslaughter charge against Penny because the jury could not reach a unanimous decision on the top charge. He expressed concern about his whereabouts.
Once the manslaughter charge is dropped and the jury is able to focus on the second charge, someone considering a guilty verdict on the top charge may also consider a guilty verdict on the second charge. Reiser said he is concerned about this.
“At that point, we thought the best we could really hope for was a hung jury, but we didn't know that. We also didn't know how long this district attorney's office would run a trial. As far as I understand, I also felt there was some kind of interaction here.''It was done to secure a guilty verdict, but it was very uncomfortable for the defense team.'' “I've never seen anything quite like this.”
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Penny said she would take action again if she encountered the same situation on the subway where someone was threatening or acting erratically.
“If you don't do anything in that situation and someone gets hurt, you won't be able to survive yourself,” he said. “I'm going to feel guilty for the rest of my life.”
The architecture student added that he was worried Neely would act on his threat to kill people on the subway.
“There's always riots on the trains. Unfortunately, in New York City there's always people coming up and talking like crazy in a way, but this is something I've never experienced before. It was very serious. I totally believed what he was saying,” Penny told Pirro.
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Penny still faces a civil lawsuit from Neely's father, Andre Zachery. He accuses Neely, 26, of causing his son's death through “negligence, carelessness and recklessness.”
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Zachery is seeking unspecified damages for assault and battery, according to a copy of the civil complaint.
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