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Daniel Penny for Your Thoughts, NY v Penny trial audio book on Amazon, sample by Matthew Russell Lee
here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY6JNDFD
I. A Subway Car Like This One
Onto a subway car like this one he got on, a muffin in his jacket pocket wrapped in plastic, a spleen speckled, it would turn out, by sickle cell disease. But that is not what killed him, Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran would say.
Was it an improper blood choke, or the terror he inspired, in a lady from Park Slope with her baby, a Nike brand ambassador on the way to Rucker Park? Even the Bronx school girls said they were frightened, even if one did later drop the dime on the white man. That was prosecutor Jillian Shartrand's doing, to call the victim by his name and the defendant merely the white man.
Of the decedent there was more, not only the mother stuffed in a suitcase but the channeling of Michael Jackson, dreams.
Now to see a man lifeless on the subway's floor, liquids flowing out of his pants, his eyes rolling back -- here in the courtroom, a woman starts to cry and the anonymous jurors look over, a lady in a COVID mask, her eyes suddenly big.
Another woman next to me is typing loudly, two fingers only, stopping to fan herself and shake her head. It is not possible to know if she is for a guilty or not guilty verdict: either way, she doesn't like it.
The defendant sits stiffly straight, not looking at the jurors. A Marine who misapplied the air choke? A racist or a hero or both. The subway door is closing. The story nears its end.
II. Suppression Hearing, October 3, 2024
[Penny is sitting at defense table, his video interview is being played. These interchanges are from the interview]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: A Subway Car Like This One
Chapter 2: Suppression Hearing, October 3, 2024
Chapter 3: Homeless History
Chapter 4: 100 Centre Street
Chapter 5: The Bronx
Chapter 6: Severe Mental Illness/ Change the World with Tupac
Chapter 7: The Warrant
Chapter 8: Opening Arguments, Nov. 1, 2024
Chapter 9: Rosario and the White Man, November 4, 2024
Chapter 10: The People's Timeline
Chapter 11: Sanchez and the Nike Witness, November 7, 2024
Chapter 12: Lenox Hill Hospital Record
Chapter 13: The Trainer Caballer, November 14, 2024
Chapter 14: Marine Corps Martial Arts Program
Chapter 15: The Brain Dies First, November 15, 2024
Chapter 16: Medical Examiner Harris, November 18, 2024
Chapter 17: The Autopsy - Chapter 18: Texas and TikTok
Chapter 19: Character Witnesses: J6 and Guns, Nov. 19, 2024
Chapter 20: Penny's Medical Examiner Chandru, Homicide on Cross, Studies, Tasers & Texas / Sunny Side Up
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