Just may be me, but I think the jury, after receiving an instruction from the judge to consider that lesser charge, that completely contradicted his first instructions, may have decided to flip the court the finger.

Not guilty verdict in Daniel Penny trial

NEW YORK CITY – Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran who used a deadly chokehold on homeless man Jordan Neely on the New York City subway last year, was found not guilty in a verdict delivered after days of jury deliberations and courtroom back-and-forth.

Penny was cleared of criminally negligent homicide in Neely’s death. A more serious manslaughter charge was dismissed earlier in deliberations because the jury deadlocked on that count.