Did a former Marine employ self-defense or too much force? That's the question for jurors to decide as the subway chokehold trial of Daniel Penny wraps up.
A defense lawyer asked jurors to put themselves in frightened subway riders' shoes Monday at the trial of a Marine veteran charged with choking an irate, homeless man to death after an outburst on a New York underground train.Prosecutors countered that Daniel Penny was way too forceful and reckless in responding to Jordan Neely.Both sides gave closing arguments Monday at Penny's trial on manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges.
But after his mother was violently killed when he was a teenager, Neely was diagnosed with depression and schizophrenia, was repeatedly hospitalized, struggled with drug abuse and had a criminal record that included assault convictions.RELATED STORY | Prosecutor says veteran's subway chokehold 'went too far.
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