NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione spoke out in court Friday against the prospect of back-to-back trials over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, telling a judge: “It’s the same trial twice. One plus one is two. Double jeopardy by any commonsense definition.”
Mangione, 27, made the remarks as court officers escorted him out of the courtroom after a judge scheduled his state murder trial to begin June 8, three months before jury selection in his federal case.
Judge Gregory Carro, matter-of-fact in his decision after a lengthy discussion with prosecutors and defense lawyers at the bench, said the state trial could be delayed until Sept 8 if an appeal delays the federal trial.
Mangione’s lawyers objected to the June trial date, telling Carro that at that time, they’ll be consumed with preparing for the federal trial, which involves allegations that Mangione stalked Thompson before killing him.
“Mr. Mangione is being put in an untenable situation,” defense lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo said. “This is a tug-of-war between two different prosecution offices.”
“The defense will not be ready on June 8,” she added.
How the fuck can he be tried for the same crime in two jurisdictions?
One is a state charge the other is federal. Welcome to the American “justice” system.
The state and federal charges are “technically” different crimes.
The good news in all this is that they are desperate. Also I still maintain he is not The Guy. There is just no fucking way. The chain of evidence, no indication he was disciplined enough to pull it off, the fucking video that shows someone who is very obviously a pro (printed the gun, knew about the cycling issue with a weapon not intended for subsonic recoil, quickness of compensating etc.)
I alternate between he’s not the guy and he is the guy but he didn’t have the gun or anything silly to have on him, they planted them after using illegal surveillance to find him, then tried to construct a legal narrative for arresting him.
he didn’t have the gun or anything silly to have on him, they planted them
whichever version is true this is something I believe 100%
Like come the fuck on, literally all us amateur armchair revolutionaries know better than this.
I’m sure all these guns with connection to cops is just a coincidence
Thousands of guns once used by law enforcement officers discovered at crime scenes
The fact that they’re allowing the backpack into evidence after it was searched off camera out of sight is fucking insane, and I hope the jury also thinks it’s insane.
The bar for throwing out evidence needs to be so low it becomes hard to convict people who obviously did it
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The video also shows a guy who looks nothing like Luigi wearing totally different clothes and a different backpack to the clothes and backpack they claim to have found that matched.
Like from the first pictures they showed of Luigi in the hostel, it was like “Cool yeah that’s a guy wearing a coat. A different one than the shooter.”
What’s even more is that there is a picture of the shooter and then another picture of someone who looks more like Luigi wearing completely different outfits within 15 minutes of each other.
Regardless of the pretext (“legal justification”): under capitalism laws protect the capitalist class and oppress the working class.
Liberals would probably have much less respect for rules and laws if they were taught how often they’re ignored for the ruling class’s interests
as I understand it, in the US, the double jeopardy rule applies within a jurisdiction per the federal constitution. Individual states may also choose to create further protections on top of that. Which NY has done. NY state may not try someone after they have already had their federal trial. However as no such prohibition applies at the federal level, they are able to let NY have the first kick at the can, then come in for a second round.
What I’m not sure of, is if he is found guilty in the the first (NY state), will they still proceed with duplicate charges at the federal level? Or is it only a backup.
The federal murder charge was dropped so he’s not being tried twice for it.
federal… allegations… Mangione stalked Thompson
Set the precedent that the federal government prosecutes stalking. That will be fun.
