Potential jurors in the trial of a white U.S. veteran charged with killing a troubled Black man on the NYC subway began answering background questions.

During voir dire in the trial of Daniel Penny, prospective jurors were asked if they were afraid of or been assaulted on the NYC subway.

MANHATTAN (CN) — The straphanging habits of everyday Manhattanites took center stage Friday at the manslaughter trial of Daniel Penny, the ex-Marine facing charges of choking Jordan Neely to death on a New York City subway last year.

A trial has begun in the case of a former US Marine who is accused of putting a homeless man in a fatal chokehold on a New York subway train. Daniel Penny, 25, has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree manslaughter and negligent homicide.

NEW YORK -- The trial of Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran charged in the May 2023 choking death of a homeless man in a New York City subway car, is set to begin Monday with jury selection, ABC News reported. The trial is expected to last between four and six weeks, according to Judge Max Wiley.

Jury selection was expected to begin Monday in the manslaughter case of Daniel Penny, who put Jordan Neely in a chokehold on a New York City subway last year leading to Neely's death.

The highly publicized trial of Daniel Penny, a former Marine charged with the choking death of Jordan Neely, an unarmed Black

Jury selection began Monday in Manhattan in the case against Daniel Penny, the former Marine accused of recklessly choking a homeless man to death on a crowded subway train. Penny, 24, arrived on the first day of his trial as dozens of placard-bearing protesters gathered outside the lower Manhattan courthouse,

Here in New York, the trial for a white former U.S. marine who choked Black street performer Jordan Neely to death on a subway train in May 2023 began this week in a Manhattan court. Daniel Penny is facing charges of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide for holding Neely in a chokehold until he died.