A forensic pathologist disputes a New York City medical examiner’s determination that former Marine Daniel Penny killed another man by placing him in a chokehold on a subway train last year.

The defense has rested its case in the trial of Daniel Penny, the former Marine who held Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on the New York City subway last year, after four days of witness testimony.

Jordan Neely died from the “combined effects” of a number of a factors, not a chokehold, a forensic pathologist hired by Daniel Penny’s attorneys testified Thursday.

Jordan Neeley’s death was a direct result of the chokehold Daniel Penny held him in, a medical examiner testified Friday, rebutting assertions from the defense team that the former Marine did not apply enough pressure to kill the subway rider and that his death could have had some other cause.

A psychiatric expert testifying in Daniel Penny’s defense said Jordan Neely had one of the most severe histories of paranoid schizophrenia he has ever reviewed.

Dr. Satish Chundru, a forensic pathologist based in Texas, told jurors in Manhattan Supreme Court that Neely's autopsy records and video of the fatal F train altercation in May 2023 didn't show signs typical of known chokehold deaths.

The witness, who aided Penny during the incident, said he lied afterward about Neely being alive since he was scared of “getting pinned for a murder charge.”

The testimony came as defense lawyers to put the homeless man's mental health history at the center of the second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide case against Daniel Penny, a West Islip native.

Jordan Neely did not die from Daniel Penny’s chokehold, a medical examiner hired by the defense testified Thursday at Penny’s criminal trial in Manhattan.

Daniel Penny has chosen not to testify at his trial in the death of an agitated man he choked on a subway train.