Live Updates: Jury Is Deadlocked in Daniel Penny Trial
Daniel Penny arrives to the courtroom on the first day of jury deliberation in his trial in New York City, December 3, 2024. (Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images)
After over 20 hours of deliberation, jurors couldn’t decide on a manslaughter charge. But the judge told them to come back on Monday to deliberate on a lesser charge.
Updated 5:50 p.m. on 12/6.
Late Friday morning, on the fourth day of jury deliberations in the Daniel Penny trial, Judge Maxwell Wiley announced that the jury had delivered him a note. “We, the jury, are unable to come to a unanimous vote on count one—manslaughter in the second degree,” it read.
Penny, of course, is the former Marine currently facing a ma…
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