Bragg’s Race to Judgement Backfires on HIM

Shock in Danny Penny’s full acquittal may be misplaced since we now know the hung jury on “reckless” count must have been leaning in HIS favor rather than the prosecution’s when looking at lesser negligence count as widely presumed.

That misreading of jurors seems to also have included Penny’s lawyers as they talked to Fox News after their white client was found not guilty of all criminal charges levelled by DA Bragg(adaccio) in connection with the 2023 subway chokehold death of a threatening black Jordan Neely. Steven Raiser & Thomas Kenniff told Fox's Martha MacCallum that they had concerns about the trajectory of the trial when Judge Maxwell Wiley dismissed the second-degree manslaughter charge against Penny after the jury said they couldn’t come to a unanimous decision about the top charge. The judge then told the jury to consider the second charge of negligent homicide, a move the attorneys said was “unprecedented” because it potentially encouraged a “compromise verdict.” Not unimportantly, the prosecution had repeated alluded to the “race” of alleged perpetrator & victim in an apparent attempt to suggest a racial motive was a key to the case.

Maybe so. But, the jury’s deliberations on that second negligence count was relatively short & sweet in unanimously reaching a “not guilty” verdict. The betting odds suggest such a rush to judgement most likely meant it was one or more jurors wanting to convict Penny that had caused the jury to get hung up in the first place, not the other way around. The jurors also obviously ignored the prosecution’s allusions to “race.” In that case, the “shock & awe” would have fallen to the one prosecutor, DA Bragg, who now realized he should never have filed any charges against Penny. On Wednesday, Fox was reporting the “Marine veteran’s defense team could turn the tables on DA with a malicious prosecution suit.”

Davd Soul