A judge agreed to hear evidence to dismiss a hate-crime case
against a Morgan Stanley exec charged with stabbing a New York City taxi
driver during a fare dispute., the WSJ reports.
William Bryan Jennings didn’t speak during the brief
pre-trial hearing in Superior Court on Friday. His attorney, Eugene Riccio,
moved for a hearing on the motion to dismiss, to be heard on June 21.
Jennings, Morgan Stanley’s co-head of North American
fixed-capital market, waived his right to a jury trial earlier this month in
favor of trying his case before a judge. He entered a plea of not guilty during
a court appearance in March. Jennings
was arrested on Feb. 29 and charged with second-degree assault, theft of
services and intimidation by bias or bigotry — considered a hate crime —
against taxi driver Mohamed Ammar in connection with a December dispute over a
taxi fare...
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