NEW YORK — A doctor from the New York City chief medical examiner’s office said the likelihood Jordan Neely died from drug use or poor health — as Daniel Penny’s lawyers have proposed — was “vanishingly low” as the prosecution rested their ...

Prosecutors have had to acknowledge that a victim frightened those around him. The defense lawyers are expected to paint their client as a protector.

The prosecution in the Daniel Penny trial resting its case after medical examiner testimony regarding the chokehold death of Jordan Neely.

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.

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.

The medical examiner who conducted Jordan Neely’s autopsy testified Friday that the homeless man’s lone cause of death was from the chokehold applied by Daniel Penny, a former Marine on trial for manslaughter after he subdued a menacing Neely aboard a Manhattan subway train last year.

The medical examiner who ruled Jordan Neely's death was a homicide caused by Daniel Penny's chokehold insisted Friday she'd stand by the ruling.

A subway commuter who helped an ex-Marine restrain an agitated man aboard a Manhattan subway last year testified that he tried to convince the veteran to loosen his grip around the man’s neck.

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.

Sanchez’s 911 call was one of several that prosecutors aired during their case against Daniel Penny, the former Marine who put homeless street artist Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on a New York City subway in May 2023.