Medical examiner says subway madman had drugs in system in Marine vet’s chokehold trial

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office's last witness against Marine vet Daniel Penny is the medical examiner who conducted Jordan Neely's autopsy.

"We found in the blood a synthetic cannabinoid – a relatively new drug in the scheme of drugs," she said. "They’re synthetic and more potent than marijuana. In a class of drugs, they fall under the category of stimulants – they rev the body up, fall into the same class of drugs as, say, cocaine."

There was no damage to bones in his chin, neck or midline structures, she said. She found scrapes and bruises on his face, neck, torso and arms, petechiae (small red spots caused by bleeding) in his eyes and damage to his spleen from sickle cell trait.