This week, Daniel Penny was finally portrayed in court as a peaceful, compassionate man hardwired to intervene on behalf of strangers in peril.

Jordan Neeley’s death was a direct result of the chokehold Daniel Penny held him in, a medical examiner testified Friday, rebutting assertions from the defense team that the former Marine did not apply enough pressure to kill the subway rider and that his death could have had some other cause.

A psychiatric expert testifying in Daniel Penny’s defense said Jordan Neely had one of the most severe histories of paranoid schizophrenia he has ever reviewed.

Prosecutors rested their case Monday in the trial of Daniel Penny​, the Marine veteran charged in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely​ on board a subway train last year.

Medical examiner Cynthia Harris ruled Neely’s May 2023 death a homicide by compression of his neck, due to the chokehold Penny placed him in on the floor of an uptown F train. On Friday, she testified that the chokehold provided the only reasonable explanation for Neely’s death.

Defense arguments are set to begin Monday in the trial of Daniel Penny, a former Marine accused of killing a mentally ill man on the New York City subway. Penny is charged in the death of Jordan Neely,

The medical examiner testified Friday at the Daniel Penny chokehold trial that it was Penny's chokehold that caused the death of Jordan Neely. Law and Crime anchor Jesse Weber explains what the defense should do next and what the jury should consider.