In a request that the case be tossed out, lawyers for the defendant, Daniel Penny, drew on testimony from passengers who described their unease before Mr. Penny intervened.
A new court filing that seeks to dismiss the case against Daniel Penny, the man who killed Jordan Neely in an NYC subway car in May, draws on the grand jury testimony of subway passengers to make the case that Penny was defending others when he placed Neely in a chokehold.
A U.S. Marine veteran has pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the fatal chokehold of a man who was behaving erratically on a New York
NEW YORK (AP) A U.S. Marine veteran who placed a homeless man in a fatal chokehold aboard a New York City subway train last month pleaded not guilty Wednesday to revised charges.