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NEW YORK (NewsNation) — A forensic pathologist testified Thursday successful defence of the military-trained commuter charged with sidesplitting Jordan Neely.
A New York City aesculapian examiner determined that Daniel Penny’s chokehold killed Neely, an agitated, mentally sick antheral whom Penny and immoderate different riders recovered threatening.
But the defense's pathologist, Dr. Satish Chundru, told jurors that Neely's aesculapian records and bystander video didn't amusement telltale signs of known types of fatal chokehold.
Among the discrepancies, helium said: The determination and grade of bruising connected Neely's cervix and the tiny magnitude of petechiae — tiny reddish spots caused by subsurface bleeding — connected his eyelids.
He said Neely died from "the combined effects” of synthetic marijuana, schizophrenia, his conflict and restraint, and a humor information that tin pb to fatal complications during exertion.
Penny, 26, has pleaded not blameworthy to manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide. His defence says the Marine seasoned and architecture pupil was defending himself and a car afloat of subway riders.
Neely, 30, sometimes entertained subway riders arsenic a Michael Jackson impersonator. But helium besides had a past of psychiatric and cause problems and a transgression grounds that included assaulting a pistillate astatine a subway station.
When they crossed paths successful a subway car connected May 1, 2023, Neely was begging for money, shouting astir being consenting to dice oregon spell to jail, and making abrupt movements, according to witnesses. Penny has said Neely lurched toward a pistillate with a tiny kid and said, “I volition kill.”
Penny enactment his limb astir Neely's neck, took him to the level and held Neely there, with Penny’s legs astir him, for adjacent to six minutes, bystander videos show. Neely had stopped moving astatine astir the past minute.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
