Alvin Bragg 'most surprised' by Daniel Penny acquittal, says legal scholar: 'Not how he planned this'

Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley reacted to the "not guilty" verdict that acquitted ex-Marine Daniel Penny of criminally negligent homicide on Monday.

"The way the case was going was along the sort of design that Bragg had to force a compromise verdict. When the jury deadlocked over the more serious crime, the judge went ahead and allowed them to consider this lesser offense. That is basically what Bragg had hoped, that if he could not get a conviction on the more serious crime, which was unlikely, that they would come back and compromise and convict him on the lesser offense, which still came with a potential penalty of four years. Taylor Penley is an associate editor with Fox News.

"So I think that the most surprised person in that room may be Alvin Bragg because you have a jury that apparently couldn't agree on the more serious offense, but then they came back, and they said, but we do agree that he's not guilty of the lesser offense, so it's not exactly how this was supposed to play out in his view."