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Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Dafna Yoran, who urged jurors at Daniel Penny's subway chokehold trial to convict him of manslaughter on Tuesday, once sought reduced punishment for a ...
Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran presented her arguements in the Daniel Penny NYC subway chokehold trial. She told the ...
“This is not an easy case… of a bad man doing a bad thing,” Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran told a group of 16 prospective jurors who may be chosen to decide if Penny is guilty of ...
Assistant Manhattan DA Dafna Yoran has asked jurors to convict the marine veteran of manslaughter over the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely, despite previously pushing for 'restorative ...
Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran said that while Penny’s initial intent to protect other passengers from someone he perceived as a threat was laudable, that praise vanished when he ...
But Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran countered that the Marine veteran went “way” too far by keeping the unarmed, mentally ill homeless man in a fatal chokehold for six minutes — long ...
Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran said it would be misleading for the jury to hear an edited excerpt. The judge agreed, and the defense recut the exhibits, so jurors were clear they were ...
"No one had to die on May 1, 2023," Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran said Monday in her closing statement about last year's chokehold death of Jordan Neely, a Black homeless man, on a ...
"He was aware of the risk his actions would kill Mr. Neely and did it anyway," Yoran said ... Prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney's office are expected to concede that Neely may ...