NEW YORK CITY—Lawyers in the Daniel Penny trial made their closing arguments on Dec. 2, hoping to sway the jury on whether Penny is guilty of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide for the death of Jordan Neely on May 1, 2023, on a New York subway train.
The defense relied on testimony from Dr. Satish Chundru, and even portions of testimony from one of the prosecution witnesses, medical examiner Dr. Cynthis Harris, to make its case that Neely died from sickle cell crisis, not from strangulation.
Criminal defense lawyer Steve Raiser repeatedly told the jury that there was no way that Penny could have known that Neely, a total stranger, had any unusual medical condition and that Penny acted to protect other passengers on the uptown F train….