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An accused serial legal with a decades-long rap sheet was given supervised launch Friday after his arrest for allegedly shoving his aged grandmother off a chair, The Post has realized.
Kenneeth McDonald, 53, was charged with second-degree tried assault for pushing the 92-year-old girl on Tuesday so arduous she tumbled from a chair that had damaged, in response to a Manhattan legal grievance.
“He pushed his aged grandmother whereas she was sitting in a chair, inflicting the chair to interrupt and her to fall down,” a police spokesman mentioned.
Manhattan Judge Valentina Morales let McDonald go on situations of supervised launch after his Friday arraignment, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office confirmed.
The judge issued an order of safety in opposition to McDonald to avoid his grandmother.
He’s due again in court docket in June.
A prosecutor had solely requested the judge for supervised launch — however the DA’s workplace defined the case isn’t eligible for bail.
McDonald has been arrested no less than 46 instances — most just lately in 2019 for an alleged assault.
His earliest arrest dates again to 1986 for an alleged housebreaking.
McDonald’s legal protection lawyer didn’t instantly return a request for remark.
Under the state’s controversial 2019 legal justice reforms, bail was eliminated for most misdemeanor and non-violent felony charges.
The legal guidelines have come beneath hearth for permitting extra criminals again on the streets.
Empire State lawmakers reached a tentative deal earlier this week to stroll again a number of the bail reform measures.
The settlement would give judges extra discretion to set bail in eligible circumstances; presently, judges are required to impose the “least restrictive” requirements to make sure defendants return to court docket.
