Morgan Stanley's Jennings asks court to toss stabbing and hate-crime charges

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Morgan Stanley's Jennings Asks Court to Toss Stabbing Case

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

March 28 (Bloomberg) -- William Bryan Jennings, the Morgan Stanley U.S. bond-underwriting chief accused of stabbing a New York cab driver over a fare, asked a Connecticut judge to dismiss the prosecution because the alleged victim contradicted himself in statements to the police, according to a copy of the filing provided by defense lawyer Eugene Riccio.

The motion to dismiss the case was filed today in state court in Stamford, Connecticut, Riccio said. It couldn't be immediately confirmed in court records. snip

Jennings, 45, is accused of attacking the driver, Mohamed Ammar, on Dec. 22 with a 2 1/2-inch blade and using racial slurs after a 40-mile ride from New York to the banker's home in Darien, Connecticut.

Ammar, 44, a native of Egypt and a U.S. citizen, said Jennings called him an expletive and said, "I'm going to kill you. You should go back to your country," according to the police report.