‘It’s Not Like The OJ Case’: Alan Dershowitz Predicts Daniel Penny Will ‘Win’ Civil Lawsuit

Noted attorney Alan Dershowitz said Wednesday that Marine veteran Daniel Penny will likely prevail in the civil lawsuit filed against him in connection with the death of homeless man Jordan Neely.

Although a jury acquitted Penny on Monday of criminally negligent homicide, he now faces a civil lawsuit from Neely’s father, Andre Zachery, seeking damages. Dershowitz, on “The Glenn Beck Program,” argued that the lawsuit is unlikely to succeed due to Zachery’s lack of a relationship with his son, and the jury’s findings in the criminal trial.

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“There’s a civil lawsuit against him, but he’ll win that civil lawsuit. It’ll probably never get past the motion to dismiss because the person bringing it was a father who had nothing to do with the son,” Dershowitz said. “He had had no relationship with the son; he became the father only after the killing in order to gain publicity from it.”

Host Glenn Beck asked if Dershowitz was saying that Zachery has “no standing” to sue Penny civilly, with the attorney confirming that he was. Zachery was mostly absent during Neely’s childhood, according