A Manhattan jury on Tuesday began deliberating the fate of Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran and architecture student charged with manslaughter and negligent homicide on the chokehold death of Jordan Neely.
Lauren Glassberg has the latest on closing arguments underway in the trial of a Marine veteran charged with choking a homeless man to death on an NYC subway train.Jurors began deliberating Tuesday in the trial of a military veteran charged with using a fatal chokehold to subdue a man whose behavior was alarming passengers on a New York subway train.
Penny, 26, has said he was protecting fellow subway riders and intended only to restrain Neely and hold him for police, not to hurt him. Prosecutors say the Marine veteran used far too much force for too long when he gripped Neely by the neck for about six minutes. Witnesses said Neely boarded a train under Manhattan on May 1, 2023, started moving erratically, yelling about his hunger and thirst and proclaiming that he was ready to die, to go to jail or - as Penny and some other passengers recalled - to kill.
Penny's lawyers argued that he used what they term a "civilian restraint," departing from the chokehold technique he'd been taught in the military, in order to control Neely without rendering him unconscious. Prosecutors say Neely had the training to know that what he was doing could kill.
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