STrib: Former Gopher Daquein McNeil found not guilty of first-degree murder

[BleedGopher]

per Joe:

A Baltimore jury on Friday found former Gophers basketball player Daquein McNeil not guilty of all charges, including a first-degree murder charge, stemming from a house-fire death from June 2017.

"We started the trial last Friday, and the jury got the case today," Marci Johnson, one of public defenders representing McNeil said in an e-mail to the Star Tribune. "The verdict only took them about 40 minutes. We are all greatly relieved."

McNeil's family has called it a case of mistaken identity.

"It is an identity case," Johnson told the Star Tribune last June. "There were some squatters living at a vacant building, and they were on drugs.

On Friday, the jury weighed in with its answers and set McNeil free.

http://www.startribune.com/former-g...-not-guilty-of-first-degree-murder/508180032/

Go Gophers!!

 

[WriterGoph]

Sounds like a ****ty case - one of MANY in Baltimore (Adnan Syed anyone?). Glad he got off. Doesn't happen much for minorities with public defenders unfortunately.

 

[Angry]

Winning

 

[fmlizard]

Good for him it must have been very trying to be falsely accused. I hope he can move forward from this and people give him a fair chance.

 

[#2Gopher]

Meanwhile his life is probably ruined by all this. Hopefully he can dig out of a hole and regroup. Not sure what he will do. I don't think he has a degree or anything.

 

[oak_street1981]

I think his life was already sort of ruined, but at least he has a chance now to make something of himself, and not rot in prison for 20 plus years.

Maybe this can be a fresh start.