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Lead Daniel Penny prosecutor secured light sentence for thug who killed 87-year-old in ATM robbery
Fox News via Yahoo ^ | December 4, 2024 | Michael Ruiz

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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1 posted on 12/05/2024 4:23:25 AM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

DAFFY IS PURE EVIL!!


2 posted on 12/05/2024 4:24:10 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: grundle

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.


3 posted on 12/05/2024 4:30:55 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: grundle

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.


4 posted on 12/05/2024 4:33:16 AM PST by heartwood (If you're looking for the /sarc tag, you just passed it..we)
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To: grundle
Matthew Lee, 57, snuck up on the victim, a former Lehman College professor named Dr. Young Kun Kim

In case you're wondering, Matthew Lee is a black who killed a random Korean, not a white who killed a random Korean.

5 posted on 12/05/2024 4:51:31 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Ann Archy

this b!tch really needs a beating


6 posted on 12/05/2024 4:54:46 AM PST by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: grundle

Hopefully, Daniel gets pardoned if found guilty.


7 posted on 12/05/2024 5:07:32 AM PST by RummyChick
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Dafna was born in Israel, is a lesbian, "married" to Peruvian Back Lives.Matter acolyte Ana Obregoso.

8 posted on 12/05/2024 5:18:27 AM PST by Liz (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to RULE. (H.L. Mencken)
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To: Liz

shes got scumbag written all over her ugly face


9 posted on 12/05/2024 5:33:40 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: grundle

Just another scumbag “lawyer.”


10 posted on 12/05/2024 6:01:48 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (America-hating Democrat "core values" really suck. All Marxist fascists have the same ones.)
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To: grundle

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.)


11 posted on 12/05/2024 6:42:02 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Freud: projection is a defense mechanism of those struggling with inferiority complexes)
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To: grundle

BTT


12 posted on 12/05/2024 6:42:26 AM PST by GailA (Welcome back Jesus and President Trump. We missed you.)
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To: Ann Archy

Yo-Yo Yoran should be indicted.


13 posted on 12/05/2024 6:54:46 AM PST by chopperk (airhi)
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To: Ann Archy

Yo-Yo Yoran should be indicted.


14 posted on 12/05/2024 6:54:46 AM PST by chopperk (airhi)
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To: Ann Archy

Yo-Yo Yoran should be indicted.


15 posted on 12/05/2024 6:54:46 AM PST by chopperk (airhi)
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To: grundle

She’s a FLAMING COMMUNIST.

GET RID OF HER.


16 posted on 12/05/2024 7:33:22 AM PST by Pearfect (Ou can't beat the competition lock-)
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To: Liz

I have seen several photos of ‘her’ where there appears to be an Adams apple.


17 posted on 12/05/2024 7:53:10 AM PST by Right Brother
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To: Right Brother

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”!


18 posted on 12/05/2024 8:00:26 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules (#PureBlood )
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To: Right Brother

Heh.......figures.


19 posted on 12/05/2024 8:08:37 AM PST by Liz (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to RULE. (H.L. Mencken)
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To: grundle

(Matthew Lee, 57, snuck up on the victim)

I haven’t looked yet.....

OK, I just did.


20 posted on 12/05/2024 9:54:23 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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