Could Luigi Mangione Walk Free?
If Luigi Mangione is acquitted, it will be because he’s already succeeded in the carnival of American criminal justice. (Sarah Yenesel via Getty Images)
His status as a folk hero could influence the verdict more than any evidence in the case.
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Luigi Mangione might actually be acquitted.
Not because he’s going to succeed in suppressing the damning evidence found in his backpack when he was arrested a year ago at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
No, if he’s acquitted, it will be because he’s already succeeded in the carnival of American criminal justice. To many, Mangione is a hero. And a sex symbol.
But let’s start with the law. Mangione, who allegedly murdered Brian Thompson, chief executive of the health insurance giant UnitedHealthcare, is currently taking part in a pretrial suppression hearing. His high-powered lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, has invoked the “exclusionary rule,” under which evidence obtained in violation of the Constitution cannot be used at trial.
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