Weekly Review, by Harper’s Magazine

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The judge of a manslaughter trial in Manhattan directed the jury to weigh the facts of the life of the 30-year-old victim, Jordan Neely, including that, in 2007, his mother was strangled to death by her partner, after which Neely’s aunt said he developed PTSD, schizophrenia, and depression and was eventually placed in foster care; that, in 2009, Neely was unhoused and working as a Michael Jackson tribute artist on the subways of New York City, w…