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(NewsNation) — Jury deliberations could statesman connected Tuesday in the proceedings of Daniel Penny, the Marine seasoned who is accused of choking a antheral to decease connected a New York City subway successful 2023.
Prosecutors are expected to wrapper up their closing arguments successful the trial, which began successful November and has included 40 witnesses implicit the past 7 weeks. Penny is charged with manslaughter and reckless homicide successful the decease of Jordan Neely.
Prosecutors person argued that portion Penny is justified successful defending himself, helium went excessively acold successful placing a chokehold connected Neely, a antheral experiencing homelessness who was witnessed threatening passengers and behaving erratically.
Penny’s attorneys support that their lawsuit apt saved lives aft Neely reportedly threatened to termination chap passengers.
The cardinal contented of the proceedings is which mode Penny’s actions should beryllium perceived. Neely arrived astatine tribunal connected Monday with bystanders chanting, “guilty, guilty, guilty” arsenic the architecture pupil made his mode to the courthouse.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg attended Monday's closing arguments and was seated with Neely's family.
Penny’s attorneys said that their lawsuit risked his beingness for different passengers. They besides asked jurors to enactment themselves successful the shoes of subway passengers, but prosecutors argued that Penny utilized “way excessively overmuch unit for mode excessively long.”
They besides argued that nine cannot tolerate an “unjust and untimely death” of a chap American based connected what could person been bare threats.
Neely was recovered to person a synthetic signifier of marijuana successful his strategy and suffered from respective aesculapian conditions astatine the clip of his death, experts person testified during the trial. Neely besides had a warrant retired for his apprehension astatine the time.
The assemblage is made up of 7 women and 5 men and determination is nary timeline for however agelong deliberations could instrumentality earlier a verdict is returned.
