Defense attorneys for alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione said Thursday in a new court filing that the murder indictment a state grand jury returned against him should be dismissed due to double jeopardy and other alleged violations.
The indictment should be dismissed “because concurrent state and federal prosecutions violate the Double Jeopardy Clause, the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause and Mr. Mangione’s constitutional rights against self-incrimination, to meaningfully defend himself, to a fair and impartial jury and to the effective assistance of counsel,” defense attorneys wrote.
Defense attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo said in the filing that “prosecutorial one-upmanship” resulted in Mangione facing state and federal charges in New York and separate charges in Pennsylvania.
We usually don’t like saying that due to a phenomeome called ‘Trial by public opinion’. He has not yet been proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt, neither can you prove so. Decreeing someone guilty, even outside of court, without proof, can negatively influence jurors to deliver a guilty verdict even if the defense creates a reasonable doubt.
If I were the prosecutor in this case I think leaning on the fact that Luigi Mangione travelled to the area of the crime scene, was seen on cameras nearby, and left the area of the crime and city quickly and discreetly with a backpack full of $20,000 cash and a Glock-19, a 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol, with a custom part that Luigi Designed and 3D Printed in his home which matches the profile of the weapon used to murder Brian Thompson, might be beyond reasonable doubt. If not, then at least conspiracy to commit a crime, because bro was not on a vacation or business trip that is for certain.