A top lawyer has blasted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg over his handling of the case of , who was charged with manslaughter after putting , a mentally ill man, in a deadly chokehold on May 1, 2023.On Friday, the judge overseeing Penny's trial dismissed the top charge in the case at the request of prosecutors, allowing jurors to consider a lesser count after they deadlocked on whether he was guilty of manslaughter. Judge Maxwell Wiley's decision will now let jurors deliberate a charge of criminally negligent homicide, which carries a lighter punishment.
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