In this episode, Mike Glover and Andy Stumpf discuss the case of Marine veteran Daniel Penny. 

After a man 30-year-old man named Jordan Neely began aggressively threatening passengers on a New York Subway, saying he was going to kill someone, Penny placed him in a chokehold. 

Neely passed out and was later pronounced dead at the hospital where his death was ruled a homicide by compression of the neck. Neely had a long criminal record, including 42 arrests and three unprovoked assaults on women in the subway.

26-year-old Penny faces charges of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide. 

Penny faces up to 19 years in prison if convicted. 

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