Marine’s Chokehold ‘Did Not Cause the Death’ of Michael Jackson Impersonator, Defense Expert Testifies
The medical expert hired by the defense contradicted the New York City medical examiner who testified for the prosecution that the chokehold was the cause of Jordan Neely’s death.

The Michael Jackson impersonator, Jordan Neely, was not killed by the chokehold, a forensic pathologist testified on Thursday in the trial of Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran who put Neely in a chokehold on a New York subway floor last year.
“Did Mr. Penny choke Neely to death?” a defense attorney, Steven Raiser, asked his expert witness on Thursday morning at Manhattan criminal court.
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