The jury was deadlocked on first charge and could NOT move on to the following charges because the instructions didn't allow it.

Since the judge wants to find Penny guilty of something, anything, instead of declaring a mistrial, did something that is almost never done and dismissed the first charge the jury was already deliberating on, and instructed them to go back and deliberate for a verdict on the second charge.

As said by the very people/witnesses he saved from a violent, criminal lunatic threatening to kill people in a closed space : Daniel Penny saved them. He is a HERO. Yet the state treats him like a criminal.

And of course, the non-Whites who helped Penny restrain the violent criminal threatening to kill people, were not charged with anything.

The jury was deadlocked on first charge and could NOT move on to the following charges because the instructions didn't allow it.

Since the judge wants to find Penny guilty of something, anything, instead of declaring a mistrial, did something that is almost never done and dismissed the first charge the jury was already deliberating on, and instructed them to go back and deliberate for a verdict on the second charge.

As said by the very people/witnesses he saved from a violent, criminal lunatic threatening to kill people in a closed space : Daniel Penny saved then. He is a HERO. Yet the state treats him like a criminal.

And of course, the non-Whites who helped Penny restrain the violent criminal threatening to kill people, were not charged with anything.

The jury was deadlocked on first charge and could NOT move on to the following charges because the instructions didn't allow it.

Since the judge wants to find Penny guilty of something, anything, instead of declaring a mistrial, did something that is almost never done and dismissed the first charge the jury was already deliberating on, and instructed them to go back and deliberate for a verdict on the second charge.

As said by the very people/witnesses he saved from a violent, criminal lunatic threatening to kill people in a closed space : Daniel Penny saved then. He is a HERO. Yet the state treats him like a criminal.

The jury was deadlocked on first charge and could NOT move on to the following charges because the instructions didn't allow it.

Since the judge wants to find Penny guilty of something, anything, instead of declaring a mistrial, did something that is almost never done and dismissed the first charge the jury was already deliberating on, and instructed them to go back and deliberate for a verdict on the second charge.

As said by the very people/witnesses he saved from a violent, criminal lunatic threatening to kill people in a closed space : Daniel Penny is a HERO. Yet the state treats him like a criminal.