Justice has finally returned to America. Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran who stood trial for manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide after saving a New York City subway from a violent, unhinged madman, has been found not guilty by a jury of his peers after the threat of a mistrial loomed. On Friday, the jury deadlocked on Count One, and the judge issued the legally questionable decision to allow them to continue deliberating on Count Two. The judge’s seemingly erroneous decision turned out to be the best thing possible for Daniel Penny, as the jury holdouts on the prosecution’s side appear to have finally thrown in the towel and agreed to declare Penny not guilty.
In the end, Penny got justice, even though this trial should’ve never happened in the first place. We’d even venture to go so far as to say he did nothing wrong and bravely acted as a Good Samaritan.
