Judge denies Marine vet Daniel Penny's motion for mistrial in subway chokehold case despite 'bias' red flag

NEW YORK – Lawyers for Marine seasoned Daniel Penny, who is connected proceedings for the decease of a antheral they called an "unhinged nutjob" successful court, asked the justice to state a mistrial Thursday implicit grounds from a "biased" witnesser and an evident anti-White communicative from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecutors.

The defence argued that Penny is not getting a just trial, and raised a fig of objections, saying that the prosecution was trying to overgarment Penny arsenic a "White vigilante" and improperly allowed witnesser Johnny Grima, a stateless antheral with a condemnation for bashing idiosyncratic with a bat, to telephone the suspect a "murderer" from the witnesser basal erstwhile helium has not been accused of murder.

Penny, 26, was an architecture pupil who was attending a New York City assemblage aft proudly serving his state successful the Marine Corps, defence lawyer Thomas Kenniff said.

Neely, 30, was an "unhinged nutjob" with a documented past of making trouble, helium said, including the alleged battle of a 67-year-old pistillate connected different subway car. 

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Daniel Penny arrives for opening arguments successful his proceedings astatine Manhattan Supreme Court successful New York City connected Nov. 1, 2024. Penny, a Marine veteran, is charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide successful the 2023 decease of Jordan Neely connected a New York City subway train. (Adam Gray for Fox News Digital)

That remark prompted observers successful the assemblage to commencement to talk up, and tribunal officers told them to "quiet down."

Judge Maxwell Wiley denied the petition but told Kenniff, "I spot what you're getting at."

Grima, an unemployed 40-year-old from the Bronx who spends clip moving with the stateless and spent 13 months down bars, testified that helium had poured h2o connected the caput of an unconscious Neely erstwhile Penny told him to stop.

Then helium claimed that Penny was "flinging Neely's limbs astir carelessly" erstwhile helium repositioned him connected the level aft Grima suggested helium mightiness choke if near connected his back. He did not witnesser the commencement of the altercation.

"It's thing similar erstwhile you person an abuser abusing someone, and they're not trying to fto anyone adjacent the abused," helium claimed. 

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Screenshot from bystander video showing Jordan Neely being held successful a chokehold connected the New York City subway.  (Luces de Nueva York/Juan Alberto Vazquez via Storyful)

Penny's defence squad took contented with however objections were handled during Grima's testimony.

Wiley said helium believes that Grima's "bias" was wide to the assemblage but that helium inactive had applicable grounds to give.

Prosecutors reason that Penny went excessively acold erstwhile helium enactment a belligerent, shouting Neely successful a chokehold connected a Manhattan subway car aft helium started screaming decease threats. The defence maintains that his actions were justified.

A inactive representation from NYPD bodycam video shows responding officers examining Jordan Neely, who is connected the crushed aft Daniel Penny placed him successful a chokehold. Penny is connected proceedings facing charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide. (NYPD)

"He's not charged with murder, truthful you conscionable request a reckless oregon negligent modular here," said Paul Mauro, a retired NYPD inspector who has been pursuing the case. "To accidental that helium was reckless erstwhile [Neely] was screaming, 'I'm gonna termination somebody' . . . and he's inactive breathing erstwhile the cops amusement up – that's not reckless. I'm sorry, and that's not negligent."

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Protestors clasp placards calling for the abolition of the constabulary extracurricular Manhattan Supreme Court Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, successful Manhattan, New York. The protestors were determination arsenic the proceedings of Daniel Penny for the choking decease of Jordan Neely began. (Barry Williams for Fox News Digital)

Neely was known to constabulary arsenic an emotionally disturbed idiosyncratic and yet remained escaped to harass the public, helium said.

"A hint to this full happening is the cops fto him go, due to the fact that of the clues astatine the scene," Mauro said. "They did not person probable clause."

This undated photo, provided by Mills and Edwards, LLP, successful New York, Friday, May 12, 2023, shows Jordan Neely, left, with Carolyn Neely, an aunt. (Courtesy Mills & Edwards, LLP via AP)

Penny faces up to 19 years successful situation if convicted. Friday marks 12 days into an expected six-week trial.

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Bragg's bureau did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.