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

The Daniel Penny trial entered closing arguments Monday. Penny, a Marine veteran, is charged in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely last year onboard an F train in Manhattan. Closing arguments got underway after an hour and a half delay due to technical issues in the courtroom.

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.

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

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.

Closing arguments are set for Monday in the trial of a military veteran charged with recklessly choking to death a mentally ill, homeless man after an outburst on a New York subway. Daniel Penny has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the May 2023 death of Jordan Neely.

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.

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.

A defense lawyer asked jurors to put themselves in the shoes of frightened subway riders as closing arguments began Monday in the trial of a Marine veteran charged with choking an irate, homeless man to death after an outburst on a New York underground train.