Posted on 12/05/2024 4:23:25 AM PST by grundle
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 Manhattan mugger who killed an 87-year-old over $300 in 2019 under the concept of "restorative justice."
Matthew Lee, 57, snuck up on the victim, a former Lehman College professor named Dr. Young Kun Kim, from behind at a Citibank ATM on Broadway on May 13, 2018, video shows. The fatal blow, a punch to the head from behind, appears to have occurred off-camera.
Kim was hospitalized and later died from his injuries. Police eventually identified Lee as the suspect and arrested him within a week.
Under a 2020 policy introduced by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's predecessor, Cyrus Vance Jr., Yoran "saw an opportunity for a transformative outcome," according to Gothamist, a New York City news site.
"It is just a continuance of the soft-on-crime policies that have permeated our big cities," said Louis Gelormino, a Staten Island defense attorney who has said the case against Penny should never have been filed.
Kim's son and daughter-in-law, Jinsoo and Julia Kim, agreed to meet with Lee, his sister and a social worker for 90 minutes, according to contemporary reports. The couple could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday.
"I can’t choose how much I hurt, but I can choose how much I hate, and I choose to not hate you anymore," Jinsoo Kim told Lee in his victim's impact statement, preserved online in the Post report. "I forgive you, not just for your sake but for mine as well. There is no healing where there is hate."
After the meeting, Lee was charged with manslaughter instead of felony murder, reducing his potential sentence from 25 years to life to 10 years.
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DAFFY IS PURE EVIL!!
This is disgusting.
Yes, south shore Staten Island is very conservative and pretty safe.
Bad place to commit a crime...jury won’t be criminal friendly.
But for how long?
How long before high rise projects are FORCED upon us?
A number of the Italians (of Italian descent, not Italian) have a lot of sway and have been able to stave it off.
But who knows?
May be time to look around for a new home.
I saw a clip of her speaking of the incident. “He didn’t intend to kill but unfortunately the individual fell...” Not, he sucker punched an old man from behind.
“He felt he had no other choices than to rob...” by punching a small old man in the head.
this b!tch really needs a beating
Hopefully, Daniel gets pardoned if found guilty.
Dafna was born in Israel, is a lesbian, "married" to Peruvian Back Lives.Matter acolyte Ana Obregoso.
shes got scumbag written all over her ugly face
Just another scumbag “lawyer.”
Yoran really wants to incarcerate more hardened criminals in New York, but she has a DEI problem: There are not enough White Boys in prison. Her solution, of course is to jail more White Boys. This is a p[erfect solution. (It’s obvious, so no /S is necessary.)
BTT
Yo-Yo Yoran should be indicted.
Yo-Yo Yoran should be indicted.
Yo-Yo Yoran should be indicted.
She’s a FLAMING COMMUNIST.
GET RID OF HER.
I have seen several photos of ‘her’ where there appears to be an Adams apple.
It does look like a he. How did all these mentally ill people get in to the system? Bring back “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”!
Heh.......figures.
(Matthew Lee, 57, snuck up on the victim)
I haven’t looked yet.....
OK, I just did.
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