Judge dismisses manslaughter charge against Daniel Penny, jury to return Monday to mull criminally negligent homicide charge ...Middle East

CNN By Lauren del Valle, Gloria Pazmino, Eric Levenson and Celina Tebor, CNN New York (CNN) — A judge granted the prosecution’s motion to dismiss the more serious charge of second-degree manslaughter against Daniel Penny on Friday in his trial over the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway last year, clearing the way for the jury to consider the remaining lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide. The ruling came after a Manhattan jury said they were deadlocked twice on the charge. Penny’s defense attorneys maintained their motion for a mistrial. Over defense objections, Judge Maxwell Wiley agreed with prosecutors who argued that dismissing the first count

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