The lawyer said that before the defendant “acted to save those people,” the passengers were “frozen with fear.”
The prosecution’s claim that the veteran retained Neely for “way too long” was refuted by Penny’s side. His client wanted to free Neely, but Raiser told the court that he felt he couldn’t since the homeless guy was fighting him.
He didn’t, of course. The lawyer said that he had to stay behind out of concern that Neely may escape.
According to The Associated Press (AP), the city’s medical examiner, Dr. Cynthia Harris, stated in her testimony that Neely died “by asphyxial strangulation”
As a result of Penny’s chokehold and that she thought it “extremely unlikely” that his death was brought on by synthetic marijuana abuse or a sickle cell disease.
In the medical examiner’s office, “the consensus was unanimous,” she said, that Neely died from a chokehold. She informed jurors that there were no other plausible reasons.
