{"id":107883,"date":"2024-11-18T18:04:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T18:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/prosecutors-in-daniel-penny-trial-to-rest-their-case-monday\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T18:04:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T18:04:25","slug":"prosecutors-in-daniel-penny-trial-to-rest-their-case-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/prosecutors-in-daniel-penny-trial-to-rest-their-case-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors in Daniel Penny trial to rest their case Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-18\/N_DanielPennyABC_111824.jpg\" alt><figcaption>ABC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">(NEW YORK) &#8212; Prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s office are expected to rest their case Monday against Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran who is charged with manslaughter and negligent homicide in the chokehold death of a homeless man aboard a New York City subway car.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Penny, 25, has\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/daniel-penny-set-stand-trial-death-jordan-neely\/story?id=113548282\"><span class=\"s1 s2\">pleaded not guilty<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0to the charges in\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/jordan-neely-man-killed-nyc-subway-chokehold-death\/story?id=114848209#:~:text=On%20May%201%2C%202023%2C%20Neely,of%20who%20Jordan%20Neely%20was.\"><span class=\"s1 s2\">Jordan Neely&#8217;s<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Defense attorneys will finish their cross-examination of the medical examiner, Dr. Cynthia Harris, who concluded \u201cthere are no alternative reasonable explanations\u201d for Jordan Neely\u2019s death other than Penny\u2019s chokehold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She is expected to be the last witness for the prosecution, which argued Penny\u2019s chokehold became reckless when he held on too long, beyond the point when Neely represented any kind of threat to subway riders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jurors saw a video of Penny demonstrating the chokehold during an interview inside a police precinct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHe had his back turned to me and I got him in a hold, got him to the ground, and he\u2019s still squirming around and going crazy,\u201d Penny is heard saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The defense is expected to shift the focus of the case from Penny to Neely, who had prior arrests, a history of mental illness and drugs in his system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC (NEW YORK) &#8212; Prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s office are expected to rest their case Monday against Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran who is charged with manslaughter and negligent homicide in the chokehold death of a homeless man aboard a New York City subway car. Penny, 25, has\u00a0pleaded<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/prosecutors-in-daniel-penny-trial-to-rest-their-case-monday\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}