{"id":2389313,"date":"2025-01-12T10:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T15:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/daniel-pennys-attorney-reveals-his-client-has-life-altering-trauma-from-prosecutions-treatment\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T10:01:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T15:01:24","slug":"daniel-pennys-attorney-reveals-his-client-has-life-altering-trauma-from-prosecutions-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/daniel-pennys-attorney-reveals-his-client-has-life-altering-trauma-from-prosecutions-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Penny&#8217;s Attorney Reveals His Client Has Life-Altering Trauma from Prosecution\u2019s Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdaniel-pennys-attorney-reveals-his-client-has-life-altering-trauma-from-prosecutions-treatment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2389313&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Daniel Penny, a\u2062 Marine \u200bCorps veteran, faced charges of \u200cmanslaughter and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prison-guard-allegedly-watched-man-hang-himself-wouldnt-allow-other-guards-to-cut-him-down-for-15-minutes\/\" title=\"Prison Guard Allegedly Watched Man Hang Himself, Wouldn\u2019t Allow Other Guards To Cut Him Down For 15 Minutes\">criminally negligent homicide<\/a>\u2063 in connection with\u2063 the death of Jordan Neely, a mentally ill man who died after Penny restrained him during a threatening episode\u2063 on the new York City\u2062 subway. Following \u2063a year and a half in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-dem-oregon-governor-freed-hundreds-of-inmates-early-now-one-is-reportedly-person-of-interest-in-deaths-of-four-young-women\/\" title=\"Ex-Dem Oregon Governor Released Inmates Early; One Now Suspected in Deaths of Four Women.\">criminal \u2064justice system<\/a>,\u200b a jury acquitted Penny of all charges, though his attorney, Thomas Kenniff, \u200bremarked on the profound mental and\u2064 emotional toll the ordeal had taken on him, asserting that the acquittal did not alleviate \u2063the\u2062 trauma or the financial strain faced \u200bby \u200dPenny.Kenniff highlighted how the lengthy prosecution process has created a chilling effect, potentially discouraging individuals from intervening\u2064 in similar situations in the future. He criticized the societal implications of the case, suggesting that the\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">political \u2063atmosphere surrounding\u2062 police<\/a> and public safety has deteriorated, highlighting concerns about the impact on \u2062future Good samaritans willing\u200d to step in during emergencies.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;ve ever wondered whether a not-guilty verdict made it all up to Daniel Penny, the man who was on trial for manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely on the New York City subway, his attorney wants you to know that it was &ldquo;hell&rdquo; on him &mdash; and remains so.<\/p>\n<p>In an appearance on Fox News last month, Thomas Kenniff, the attorney who defended the Marine Corps veteran in a Manhattan courtroom, told Jacqui Heinrich that the jury&rsquo;s decision &ldquo;does not relieve the trauma,&rdquo; either personally or financially, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/daniel-penny-accepts-invitation-jd-vance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for his client<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Penny was the man who restrained Neely, a mentally ill man who was screaming at passengers and threatening them on May 1, 2023. Neely ended up dying, and, even though it was clear that he was mostly the author of his own demise, he also became a cause c&eacute;l&egrave;bre of the left. That led to charges for Penny and a year and a half through the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Neely threatened passengers with the words &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have food. I don&rsquo;t have a drink. I&rsquo;m fed up. I don&rsquo;t mind going to jail and getting life in prison. I&rsquo;m ready to die,&rdquo; apparently persuaded enough people on the jury that he was guilty of neither charge he was on trial for. They had initially deadlocked on the manslaughter charge on Dec. 6, at which point a judge dismissed it.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 9, the jury returned a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/alvin-bragg-responds-daniel-penny-acquittal-trying-play-victim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unanimous not-guilty verdict<\/a> on the lesser charge.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Late last month, Kenniff appeared on Fox News where Heinrich asked him about &ldquo;what it&rsquo;s like to face the consequences of intervening&rdquo; in Penny&rsquo;s case.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s a point I&rsquo;ve made to people who&rsquo;ve approached the staff for this case and who were obviously elated with the verdict,&rdquo; Kenniff said. &ldquo;It was the correct verdict.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But I always try to stress upon people that it does not relieve the trauma of what it&rsquo;s like for someone in my client&rsquo;s position to have faced the wait of a felony prosecution and a felony indictment &mdash; the eighteen, nineteen months of uncertainty, anxiety that come with that.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That is life-altering no matter how well the verdict comes out. Those scars don&rsquo;t just heal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And, indeed, Penny is still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jordan-neelys-father-sues-daniel-penny-30-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">facing a lawsuit from Neely&rsquo;s father<\/a>, something which will make the process of healing even more protracted.<\/p>\n<p>This sort of thing, Kenniff said, will dissuade people from intervening in future incidents, including a woman who was set on fire on the subway just days before.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Seeing the hell that my client went through &hellip; as events like these occur throughout the city and beyond, it&rsquo;s very reasonable to expect that people will see what happened to my client and what he had to go through before he was exonerated,&rdquo; Kenniff said.<\/p>\n<p>Heinrich went on to note that almost a quarter of New York Police Department police officers want to leave the job as soon as possible, given the state of the job in the 2020s.<\/p>\n<p>This, Kenniff said, &ldquo;has been going on for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Did my client&rsquo;s situation help the problem? Probably not, but the reality is that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-reps-warn-dems-on-ftc-pushing-partisan-policies-consolidating-too-much-power\/\" title=\"GOP Reps. warn Dems on FTC pushing partisan policies, consolidating too much power\">radical progressive agenda<\/a>, the &lsquo;defund the police&rsquo; crowd, the radical elements of the BLM crowd &hellip; were really about demonizing police and vindicating certain criminal elements at any cost, no matter how culpable they are.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I07rwRhGLPE?si=dfNwsKgqPJgwFYk9\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>And this is what&rsquo;s so important to realize about the Daniel Penny case: He shouldn&rsquo;t have been in that courtroom, period, and the fact it even got there will ensure that less <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/chaos-erupts-outside-courthouse-daniel-penny-acquittal-blm-leader-calls-black-vigilantes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">good Samaritans stand up and act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the Penny case made clear: You&nbsp;<em>want<\/em> a Daniel Penny on your train. You don&rsquo;t want people who aren&rsquo;t going to get involved when they can get involved and you can&rsquo;t. Penny is a former Marine, someone who knows how to restrain a man who is clearly out of his mind. 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