Closing arguments will take place Monday in Daniel Penny’s subway chokehold death trial in New York City. Afterward, a jury of 12 Manhattanites will deliberate his fate.

Closing arguments are set to be held in the trial of a Marine veteran charged with recklessly choking to death a distressed, homeless man on a New York subway train.

After the closings, Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley, who has presided over the monthlong trial, will instruct the jury on how New York applies self-defense to homicide.

Daniel Penny’s defense lawyer gave his closing argument Monday, arguing that Penny did not kill Jordan Neely when he held Neely in a chokehold for about six minutes on an uptown F train in May 2023. Attorney Steven Raiser told jurors that prosecutors didn’t prove that Penny squeezed hard enough to render Neely unconscious or kill him.

Closing arguments have begun in the trial of a Marine veteran charged with recklessly choking to death an irate, homeless man on a New York subway train

Daniel Penny was charged with manslaughter in the choking death of Jordan Neely, a homeless man who was shouting in a subway car, last year.

Daniel Penny claims he acted in self-defense against threatening behavior when he put Jordan Neely in a chokehold on May 1, 2023.

Closing arguments are set to be held in the trial of a Marine veteran charged with recklessly choking to death a mentally ill, homeless man on a New York subway

Daniel Penny has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the May 2023 death of New York subway rider Jordan Neely.

Closing arguments are set to be held in the trial of a Marine veteran charged with recklessly choking to death a distressed, homeless man on a New York subway train.