{"id":295393,"date":"2026-07-14T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/295393\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:04:10","slug":"the-view-host-sunny-hostin-asks-da-for-leniency-in-sons-ny-trespassing-case-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/295393\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The View\u2019 host Sunny Hostin asks DA for leniency in son\u2019s NY trespassing case \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe View\u201d host Sunny Hostin, a former federal prosecutor,\u00a0is asking the Westchester DA\u2019s office to go easy on her son<\/a> after he was cited for trespassing while out for a run.<\/p>\n

Authorities on June 16 accused Gabriel Hostin of entering an off-limits area near an active railroad track without permission.<\/p>\n

Sunny Hostin \u2014 a veteran legal analyst acting as her son\u2019s attorney\u2014 penned a letter asking prosecutors to drop the case prior to Gabriel\u2019s scheduled July 31 court appearance.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy client is a 2025 Harvard University graduate with no criminal history or prior contact with the criminal justice system,\u201d she wrote in a letter to the court obtained by the New York Daily News.<\/p>\n

Sunny argues that her son is an avid runner and Junior Olympian track athlete who spotted a gravel incline while training that he saw as a challenge that appeared to be fair game.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile training on the hill, my client was approached by a police officer,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThe defendant called me immediately and I arrived at the location within minutes. During the encounter, and in my presence, the officer acknowledged that the gate should have been closed and, using a key from his own belt, proceeded to close and lock the gate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"GabrielGabriel Hostin and Sunny Hostin attend the screening of Marvel Studios’ ‘Black Panther’ hosted by The Cinema Society on Feb. 13, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin\/Getty Images)\u00a0<\/p>\n

She contends the gate was open and that nowhere was a sign posted warning passersby they could be cited for trespassing.<\/p>\n

However, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department contends Gabriel was on \u201cthe Right-Of-Way of the active railroad tracks at the New Rochelle station, in violation of the posted NO TRESPASSING signs\u201d when he was cited around 8 p.m. on the day of the incident.<\/p>\n

Sunny argues her client made an \u201chonest mistake\u201d and is asking Westchester County prosecutors to help Gabriel sidestep \u201cunnecessary consequences\u201d resulting from an \u201chonest mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added that the Ivy League scholar and track athlete poses no threat to his community.<\/p>\n

The Notre Dame Law School graduate worked for CNN and ABC News before joining \u201cThe View\u201d<\/a> in 2016. She was known for targeting child sex predators as a prosecutor.<\/p>\n

Westchester County prosecutors declined a request for comment on the charges, first reported by TMZ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe View\u201d host Sunny Hostin, a former federal prosecutor,\u00a0is asking the Westchester DA\u2019s office to go easy on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1214,11167,157,85,11168,607,9,24,55,54,12,56,904,1869,48239],"class_list":["post-295393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-celebrities","tag-coffee-break","tag-entertainment","tag-latest-headlines","tag-morning-wire","tag-national-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-things-to-do","tag-tv","tag-tv-streaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}