No. of Recommendations: 7
Good but that doesn't reverse the harm experienced by Penny by the year long prosecution.
Harm experienced by Penny?
He held Neely in a chokehold for 6 minutes that the medical examiner who performed the autopsy thought was responsible for a death. Not a breathehold, a chokehold. For 6 minutes. How long can you hold your breath?
Neely clearly had mental health issues, but he did not attack or threaten to attack anyone.
And there are different standards for criminal and civil lawsuits. Just ask O.J. Simpson. Although you might need a ouija board.
Let’s see what the jury decides in the civil case.
But the medical examiner who performed the autopsy on Neely, Dr. Cynthia Harris, told jurors it was her medical opinion “that there are no alternative reasonable explanations” for his death and that those proposed by the defense were “so improbable — that it stands shoulder to shoulder with impossibility.”
