Hurubie Meko

Judge Dale E. Ho, who will oversee the case, has a sterling educational pedigree and a history of pointed remarks as a civil rights lawyer.

Mr. Penny’s subway-car struggle with a homeless man, Jordan Neely, ended in death. On Thursday, his lawyers will also ask a judge to exclude video of Mr. Penny discussing the encounter.

Within days of being criminally indicted, Mayor Eric Adams asked a judge to drop one of five counts against him. Prosecutors say a jury should get to hear their evidence.

The failed plot to kill Masih Alinejad, a human-rights activist, has already led to murder-for-hire charges against members of an Eastern European criminal organization with ties to Iran.

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged a senior official in Iran's Revolutionary Guard and three other men connected to the country's

A new accusation against Harvey Weinstein will be joined with previous charges that are being retried, a judge ruled on Wednesday. A jury will likely hear the New York case next spring.

Nicolas Morton, who worked for the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, made boys run to exhaustion unless they exposed themselves to him, prosecutors said.

The courtroom presence of Jo-Ellan Dimitrius illustrates the pressure on the 12 people who will decide if Daniel Penny is guilty of manslaughter for choking a man on a New York subway train.

Lawyers selected 12 Manhattanites and four alternates to hear a manslaughter case that divided the city. Opening statements will be Friday.

NEW YORK — Nearly 18 months after a video of Daniel Penny fatally choking another man in a subway car in Manhattan spread online, a jury Friday