Luigi Mangione’s lawyers seek dismissal of federal charges in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing

I mean that CEO killed many while Luigi murdered one. Still you don't get to shoot people and then get away with it.

PBS, shame on you. Post the legal filing PDF. You read it, but you won't share it.

Here's the docket . It looks like no RECAP user has purchased the docs on PACER yet.
Seriously. They have nothing to lose here, they’ve already lost federal funding. Might as well make it interesting.
- They lost federal funding because they normalized fascism, genocide, etc. They're not coming back. They're doubling down.

I’m pretty sure he did it, but the way this whole thing was handled has been atrocious and incredibly stupid.

At this point yes, they’ve fucked his whole right to a fair trial beyond repair.

I'm legitimately unconvinced that they got the right guy. There are issues with all of the evidence against him, and I fully believe that the federal government would, in the absence of an actual suspect, frame the first convenient loner. Like there's probably a list of "questionable" individuals in a file at the FBI that they can pull up when they need a scapegoat. "How about this Luigi guy? He's in the general vicinity, and he doesn't have an alibi. Grab the gun and one of those manifestos from the pile, we gotta go pick him up."
It's also possible he's guilty, but the prosecution still has to follow the rule of law. If he cannot get a fair trial, he must go free. That's the only way we can be certain that the government won't throw us in prison without a fair trial.
- I’ve read his online last blog entry and that’s what convinced me.
  I think they caught him using illegal means, and I think they fabricated evidence. The political pressure to catch him was insane and none of the evidence makes any sense.
  If he was as smart as I assume he is they probably couldn’t get parallel construction of evidence to add up, so they had to go further. Or they couldn’t disclose the illegal methods used to find and track him.
  The McDonald’s employee noticing him from the masked photos also is bizarre.
  Ultimately the government needs to prove he did it, and the blog post alone is circumstantial.
- I'm legitimately unconvinced that they got the right guy.
  To me, it doesnt matter either way what I think about his guilt. Its on the prosecution to prove it, and until then he is not guilty. As it should be.
- Yeah, I’m 100% in the “they fabricated a fuckload of evidence because they couldn’t find anything solid” mindset. You’re telling me the dude who managed to evade a nationwide manhunt was caught with the untraceable murder weapon and a printed copy of his manifesto on his person?
  No, he would have had time to disassemble and scatter the 3D printed gun. A little bit in this dumpster over here, a little bit in a public trash can over there, etc… The dude had plenty of time to do so, and would have if he was as smart as he seemed. Hell, he even had a decoy backpack full of Monopoly money for the cops to find.
  The cops disappeared with his backpack for a few minutes, then miraculously found all of the evidence they needed when they brought it back?
  Even if it does go all the way to trial, (which it shouldn’t, because he can’t possibly get a fair trial), I have no doubt that he’ll get railroaded into a conviction.
- The only reason I'm not sure they framed him is the wealthy family; why didn't they pick some poor fucker?
Nah this is a perfect example of a Fahrenheit 451 situation. The govt needed to blame someone otherwise they would look incompetent and this guy is who they chose.
For context in Fahrenheit 451 the main character is on the run for reading books (which have been outlawed) and he watches the cops kill an innocent man while they claim it was him.
OJ got away with a lot more due to bullshit by the cops, and he was legit guilty. Luigi I'm honestly not sure because it's really hard to tell incompetence from frame-up. In the end, I wouldn't be surprised if the "evidence" was a frame up and they got him from illegally harvested data that they can't disclose.
Apparently there are questions about the chain of custody of the gun.
Also there's the question about why someone after shooting someone would keep the gun? Surely the whole point of a 3D printed gun is that it's untraceable, but obviously that doesn't work if you still have it on you days later. Why wouldn't you throw that in the river, or even just hand it in and claim to have found it. That way your fingerprints been on it are not suspicious. Although personal I would just chuck it in the river and not trying any mind games, that would have probably worked with a previous administrations but this one, not so much.

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