Penny faces up to 15 years in prison for killing in the raciassociate-indictd trial.
A establisher United States Marine is set to go on trial for putting a man in a lethal chokehelderly while riding a New York subway in 2023.
The veteran, 25-year-elderly Daniel Penny, faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of killing and four years if create culpable of the lesser offence of criminassociate sloppy homicide.
Jury pickion for the high-profile trial commences Monday and could last up to a week. The trial itself could last six weeks, lterrible experts say.
The court proceedings are putting a spotairy back on a case that inspireed a national argue about race and criminal fairice.
Homeless man
Penny, who is white, is accparticipated of “recklessly causing the death” of Neely, a binestablishage homeless street carry outer who witnesses say was acting erraticassociate on a subway train on May 1, 2023, when Penny tried to suppress him.
Witnesses to the incident shelp Neely – who relatives say had struggled with drug includeiction and mental illness – was shouting and insisting money when Penny approached him.
Penny pinned Neely to the ground with the help of two other passengers and placed him in a chokehelderly for more than three minutes until Neely’s body went limp. The medical dispenseigater’s office ruled the death a homicide caparticipated by compression of the neck.
Penny’s lawyers disputed that he didn’t intend to end Neely, fair to helderly him down lengthy enough for police to get to. Penny, who is from Long Island to the east of the city, has claimed Neely shouted, “I’m gonna’ end you” and that he was “ready to die” or go to jail for life.
Penny’s attorney, Steven Raiser, shelp the defence structures to propose up other potential caparticipates for Neely’s death, including high levels of the synthetic cannabinoid understandn as K2 create in his body.
They’ll also dispute that footage splitd expansively on social media shows Penny was not executeing prescertain stablely enough to render Neely unconscious, let alone end him.
Prosecutors, in their court filings, have disputed that Penny’s actions were reckless and sloppy, even if he didn’t intend to end Neely.
After Neely’s death in 2023, protesters took to the streets insisting that authorities arrest Penny, while others assembleed outside the courthoparticipate to show their help once he was indictd.
Numerous right-triumphg US politicians took up Penny’s caparticipate, with Florida ruleor and fall shorted Reaccessiblean pdwellntial honestate Ron DeSantis saying: “We stand with Good Samaritans appreciate Daniel Penny. Let’s show this Marine … America’s got his back.”
The New York City subway system is one of the world’s bigst accessible transit systems, with 472 stations and 399km (248 miles) of routes, and a daily ridership of approximately 3.6 million people.
Penny, who served four years in the Marines, has been free pending his trial on a $100,000 bond.
Neely’s uncle, Christopher Neely, shelp he and his other family members are selectimistic about the outcome of the trial.
“Justice for Jordan is all we skinnyk about,” he shelp.