纽约地铁扼颈案：陪审团裁定 Daniel Penny 无罪
2024年12月9日，在美国纽约州纽约市曼哈顿，陪审团裁定 Daniel Penny 在 Jordan Neely 地铁死亡案中过失杀人罪（criminally negligent homicide）不成立。Penny 是前海军陆战队员；2023年5月1日，他在曼哈顿一列北行 F 线地铁列车上对 Neely 施以扼颈，Neely 随后死亡。
Neely 当年30岁，是无家可归的街头艺人。检方在庭审中出示了医疗记录、视频、随身摄像机画面以及30多名证人的证词，其中包括纽约市首席法医办公室的证词。Penny 原被控二级过失杀人（manslaughter）与过失杀人两项罪名；陪审团评议四天后在上周五对较重的二级过失杀人罪名无法达成一致，检方随即申请撤销该罪名，主审法官 Maxwell Wiley 准许，陪审团随后只就较轻的过失杀人罪名继续评议，并于本周一上午裁定无罪。较轻罪名如成立最高可判四年监禁。
纽约县（曼哈顿）地区检察官 Alvin Bragg 在裁决后发表声明说，他的办公室从头到尾遵循事实与证据：大陪审团投票决定起诉，办公室把案件完整呈交审判陪审团。他说：「陪审团已经发声。在曼哈顿地区检察官办公室，我们深深尊重陪审程序，也尊重他们的裁决。」
Bragg 同时谴责审判期间针对承办检察官及其家人的仇恨与威胁，称办案检察官数十年来致力于公共服务与曼哈顿的安全，针对他们的仇恨与威胁「完全不可接受，人人都应予以谴责，无论对本案持何种看法」。他并感谢纽约市警察局与主审法官 Wiley，以及抽出时间认真评估证据的陪审员。（来源：纽约县地区检察官办公室）
New York Subway Chokehold Case: Jury Finds Daniel Penny Not Guilty
On December 9, 2024, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, a jury found Daniel Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the subway death of Jordan Neely. Penny, a former Marine, put Neely in a chokehold aboard a northbound F train in Manhattan on May 1, 2023, and Neely died.
Neely was 30 years old and a homeless street performer. At trial, prosecutors introduced medical records, videos, body-camera footage and testimony from more than 30 witnesses, including from the city's Office of Chief Medical Examiner. Penny had faced charges of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide. After four days of deliberation, jurors told the court on Friday that they could not agree on the more serious manslaughter count; prosecutors then moved to dismiss that count, Judge Maxwell Wiley granted the motion, and the jury deliberated only on the lesser count before returning a not-guilty verdict on Monday morning. The lesser charge carried a maximum sentence of four years in prison.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement after the verdict that his office had followed the facts and the evidence from beginning to end: a grand jury voted to indict, and the office carefully presented the case to a trial jury. "The jury has now spoken. At the Manhattan D.A.'s Office, we deeply respect the jury process, and we respect their verdict," he said.
Bragg also condemned the hate and threats directed during the trial at the career prosecutors on the case and their family members, saying the prosecutors had dedicated decades of their lives to public service and to the safety of Manhattan, and that such conduct was "simply unacceptable, and everyone, no matter your opinion on this case, should condemn it." He thanked the NYPD and Judge Wiley, and the jurors who took time out of their lives to diligently evaluate the evidence. (Source: Manhattan District Attorney's Office)
来源：纽约县地区检察官办公室
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图片来源：图：位于纽约市中心街100号的纽约县刑事法院大楼，本案在此审理。Ajay Suresh 摄，CC BY 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The New York County Criminal Court building at 100 Centre Street in New York City, where the case was tried. Photo by Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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