Janelle Griffith is a national reporter for NBC News focusing on issues of race and policing.
Jordan Neely died from the “combined effects” of a number of a factors, not a chokehold, a forensic pathologist hired by Daniel Penny’s attorneys testified Thursday. Penny is charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the chokehold death of Neely on a New York City subway train in May 2023. Dr.
Harris, a prosecution witness, testified over three days and said she based her decision on the autopsy findings coupled with the video and the investigative information about it, as well as with knowledge of Neely’s use of synthetic cannabinoids. She was in the courtroom Thursday during Chundru’s testimony. One of Penny’s attorneys, Steven Raiser, spent hours trying to poke holes in her findings and testimony. He questioned how she came to her conclusion without full toxicology results.
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