Content warning: This article contains mention of sexual assault.
A Manhattan judge reduced counts against a Gallatin student facing strangulation and sexual assault allegations, instead charging him with criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation and third-degree assault during a Wednesday hearing.
Abraham Chabon returned to the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse with his parents — both of whom are prominent authors — over one month after a judge postponed his hearing so he could plead guilty to the restructured charges. On Wednesday morning, prosecutors agreed to drop the top charge — second-degree strangulation, a felony — and instead proceed with criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation, also adding third-degree assault: both misdemeanors under New York state law…