Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Dafna Yoran, who also prosecuted the city's first ever "restorative justice" case on a homicide charge, resulting in a 10-year sentence for someone who snuck ...

"You obviously cannot kill someone because they are crazy and ranting and looking menacing, no matter what it is that they are saying," Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran told ...

Assistant district attorney Dafna Yoran argued Penny knew his actions could kill Neely but continued to hold him in a chokehold for "way too long" and "didn't recognize his humanity." The city's ...

“He kept going until a man died. He must be held accountable for that,” Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran told the jurors. Supreme Court Judge Maxwell Wiley had dismissed the top charge of ...

In her opening statement, Dafna Yoran, an assistant prosecutor with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, said that Neely had “demanded to be seen” and that despite his not having ...

Tensions were high in the courtroom as Justice Maxwell Wiley addressed ‘unfair assertions’ made against Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran in the media during the trial. He described the ...

Dafna Yoran, an assistant district attorney, had said during closing arguments that Penny was warned by people around him about risks to Neely's life and intentionally ignored them. "He didn't ...

That should have been the end of it, as the defense called for a mistrial. But Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran decided they should just simply drop manslaughter, so they can move on to the ...

That morning, Penny sat near the front of the courtroom, listening as Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran said, “Jordan Neely took his last breaths on the dirty floor of an uptown F train.” ...

Assistant district attorney Dafna Yoran argued Penny knew his actions could kill Neely but continued to hold him in a chokehold for "way too long" and "didn't recognize his humanity." The city's ...