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What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[-] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 37 points 1 month ago

He'll be found guilty in a civil lawsuit and then much later gets attested in Vegas while trying to get back some of his memorabilia at gunpoint. For which he will be getting an unusually high sentence. All the while he will write books claiming he will find the guy who really did it.

[-] hogmomma@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Sounds vaguely familiar.

[-] Burninator05@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Read up on the some of the controversies surrounding the Lindburg Baby. It's pretty much point to point for what happened.

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

I just cant believe they never found the person who climbed in the basement window.

[-] hogmomma@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I thought this was referring to OJ.

[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

“How I Did It” would be a good title.

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

They'll kill him.

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Back of the head suicide, style? Lone wolf/mentally ill/fall guy? Or straight up, unambiguous, assination?

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Before he's set for release, they'll put him in a cell with someone already serving a life sentence. Another jailhouse killing.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I would watch a sitcom about Luigi, and the series starts off with him being found not guilty. So they lock him in with a guy doing life. Their idea is to release him in 40 days. They think the life sentence guy will kill him. They assumed thats what would happen.

Instead he and his cell mate become lifelong friends, and the style of the show changes from gritty and dramatic, to being shot like an 80s NBC sitcom, with a studio audience.

Except it takes place in a comedy version of a jail. And it starts and ends every episode the same way. They wake up in their cell, and they go to sleep in their cell.

Cue the freezeframe, roll credits, as a studio audience gives forced applause that kind of drags, and you can tell some guy is waving his arms like "CLAP LOUDER!!!" and they're all just thinking "how long do we have to clap???"

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hi Im from Netflix and we want to make your show. We already have John Mullany committed. Only thing is we need to some how make it live and David Chang will being cooking the whole time.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Today's popular option seems to be car crashes.

[-] Zephorah@discuss.online 1 points 1 month ago

Exactly so.

[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

I don't see any avenue where he is found not guilty to be honest, but in that theoretical case, I think that there's going to be a lot of older folk that absolutely lose their mind about the principle of the matter.

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ok, what is the evidence of the case? If you know.

[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

All I have is the publicly available evidence, but that pretty strongly indicates guilt.

he was found a state over, at a mcdonalds. With a fake ID that was the same name that was used to check into manhatten, and for transport. with a bag containing a loaded unmarked 3d printed handgun that matched the footage.

He also had writings which are not public but have been stated to indicate his mindset prior to the murder, and a notebook that contained detailed travel plans and how to avoid capture.

Like pacifist said though, the police are tripping this case up, the biggest defense for Luigi at the moment is the ineptitude of the police during the arrest sequence and investigation. They have already succeeded in throwing out medical records due to improper acquisition, have been found wiretapping attorney lines (which IMO should be an immediate opposing party wins regardless), and are in the process of trying to throw the bag out that was found at mcdonalds due to improper search and seizure claims (although I don't personally think this will happen, it's pretty clear the search and seizure laws in that state clarify that a search will happen on any arrest regardless of case)

the only way I can see him getting a "innocent" verdict is Jury nullification, so I am not leaning on that, because even if found innocent on the second degree murder charges, based off publicly available evidence the prosecution still has a fairly strong case of stalking charges. Plus he still is facing the same charges at the state level as well, as the judges ruled it isn't considered double jeopardy for someone to be trialed both federally and state side (which IMO is wrong but I digress)

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wont break down all the evidence since I dont want to get in an extended argument but looking at what you posted, given what we know publicly there is room for reasonable doubt.

Here would be my counter arguments without going into detail.

The descripencies in photos released by police during the manhunt.

The bag that was ditched with suspicious reports of its contents.

The improper handling of the weapon.

Not saying these for sure indicate innocence just there is still room for reasonable doubt in the court of public opinion.

[-] Zephorah@discuss.online 3 points 1 month ago

It’s straight Jury Nullification within an hour of deliberation unless there are people on the jury who have been bought, by monetary means or otherwise.

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 month ago

Not guilty seems very unlikely based on the publicly available evidence. I could see a hung jury happening though, as there are a minority of people who strongly want him to go free.

[-] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Cops seem to be OJing it, getting plenty of publicly available evidence tossed because they fucked up processing it

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 month ago

Ah well I haven't followed all those details. Prosecutorial incompetence is always a possibility.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

The most loud evidence since the arrest was the backpack with the gun and the manifesto. Except it was known pretty soon that the cops botched the ‘chain of custody’ for the backpack, as some officer had the backpack in her sole possession for an hour before delivering it to the station.

I keep being baffled as to why I don't see any news about this evidence being thrown away. Maybe it was dismissed from the trial right away, idk.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

They're evidence is so weak that it will be easy for the defense to claim reasonable doubt, and combined with people generally leaning that way anyway, it's probably going to be a pretty easy win for him.

That's why they will drag it out for as long as possible, so they can keep him in prison until they absolutely have to release him. That's what they did with Casey Anthony. She ultimately got found Not Guilty, but she still spent 3 1/2 years in jail that she'll never get back.

[-] Zephorah@discuss.online 1 points 1 month ago

That’s the idea of jury nullification: guilty, but we don’t care.

[-] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Mysterious car crash/ heart attack/ fent OD/ fall from a window.

But it won't be too mysterious.

[-] Novamdomum@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

He'll be released and probably be offered all sorts of book, talk show, movie deals. He certainly won't do anything criminal. That would would be cuckoo bonkers. CEO's of unpopular companies will increase their security and certainly not ever just wander around on their own outside in the street. He will be the subject of all sorts of controversial arguments which will be used to market him. Or... he'll go into some kind of anonymous relocation program and live a quiet life out of the public eye. Either way it's going to be one of the most interesting moments to watch in recent history.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

Nothing, he's an innocent man after all.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Disappeared by ICE.

[-] Zephorah@discuss.online 2 points 1 month ago

I think the billionaire class will have an assassin ready to go. We’re not supposed to fight back. If he can be an example of punishment via the legal system, great. If not, well, they’ll pay to make that example of punishment so.

[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Hopefully copycats. If defending ourselves from these horrid companies becomes a legal precedent then it is officially open season.

[-] Muffi@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

The American government is doing their best to make him and his story disappear from the media. The same tactic will simply intensify. Killing him with the classic 'prison suicide' will only make him a martyr, so they will silence him and make him as invisible as possible.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

he'll be swept up by ice for existing, spend 3 weeks in a Totally-Not-Concentration-Camp™ before being deported via airdrop to somewhere in the middle of the Sahara, to far from towns and travel routes to get help before dying of exposure.

While the Bought-And-Paid-For media spin it as a win for americans by dealing with a "Terrorist" that the "Woke Justice System" let go for woke wokeness reasons.

[-] arcine@jlai.lu 0 points 1 month ago

I really hope he kills a second one of those fuckers, then.

[-] Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 3 points 1 month ago

I'm not convinced he killed the first. The pictures they showed as evidence looked like completely different people, his backpack was lighter than his clothes in one, then darker than his clothes in another.

Then they "caught him" at a restaurant with a backpack full of all the most convenient evidence days later.

Weird. If I did that I sure wouldn't be hanging out in restaurants DAYS later still toting around all the evidence just for the luls.

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

For his sake, I really hope he did do it. I mean, being imprisoned as he is would suck regardless, but it would suck extra hard if he didn't do it

[-] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean he literally murdered someone in the middle of midtown Manhattan (I know Lemmy is really into the "Luigi is Innocent" conspiracy theories but I legit think he did it). Even if you think what he did was justified, that doesn't mean it's legal. We can't have a functioning society where you can just extra-judiciously kill people and get away with it even if they're doing something bad. He knew what he was getting into when he did this, and knew that he'd probably get arrested and convicted. If he gets convicted it will be justified, even though I completely understand why he did it and don't feel bad for the victim. If he is found not guilty, then the prosecution really fucked up and that's good for him.

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

I see where youre coming from. Can you tell me the evidence against Luigi?

[-] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

The extra-judicial nature of our society favours the rich. They get away with murder every minute of every day? Why not Luigi?

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