A very good thing for the rule of law happened yesterday in New York City – the defendant in a kangaroo court facing a sham trial proceeding was acquitted. District Attorney Alvin Bragg and the judge in this case, Maxwell Wiley, rolled the dice on an attempt to use lawfare to railroad a retired United States Marine who intervened on a New York subway to stop a homeless man from threatening other passengers. It came up craps.
Daniel Penny was one of the passengers on a May 1st, 2023 train leaving the Second Avenue station when Jordan Neely, a 30-year old homeless man, began accosting everyone on board, screaming he was hungry, thirsty, needed a job, and wasn’t afraid to go to prison or even to die. In short, he began wigging out. He threatened to kill everyone on the train. Penny stepped in and placed Neely in a restraining chokehold until the train reached the next stop,…
