Luigi Mangione: Cops Might Have Planted Critical Piece of Evidence
Luigi Mangione: Cops Might Have Planted Critical Piece of Evidence
The Ivy League graduate arrested on suspicion of assassinating the CEO of UnitedHealthcare took issue with two of the prosecutor’s claims during his first court appearance on Monday night. Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested earlier that day at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Penn., carrying a backpack with a...
Wouldn’t surprise me. We’ll see how this plays out.
24Late Monday night, New York prosecutors charged Mangione with one count of second-degree murder [...]
This is actually funny, because from everything we've heard, it was definitely very premeditated; wonder why they didn't go with first-degree murder...
15First degree is very hard to prove, and losing a case because you went for first over second degree murder would be embarrassing for any prosecutor.
14The definition that legally applies for 1st degree murder is a lot more strict than people usually think.
Here's a partial summary:
A more complete summary of the law is given in this video around 8:49.
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7Be funny if it turned out they couldn’t actually track the shooter down, so they just picked a random person to pin it on to make it seem like people would inevitably get caught if they did a copy cat crime.
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