Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty?
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoCops seem to be OJing it, getting plenty of publicly available evidence tossed because they fucked up processing it
Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty?
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoCops seem to be OJing it, getting plenty of publicly available evidence tossed because they fucked up processing it
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Ah well I haven’t followed all those details. Prosecutorial incompetence is always a possibility.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
You’re saying the backpack was ruled inadmissible? If so that is certainly a big deal, maybe bigger than possible jury nullification.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The thing is, I haven’t heard that the backpack was thrown out of the evidence, which is what confuses me. But I’m only following the case via Lemmy and Reddit.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
if what slurpy says is true, it should be. doesn’t mean it will, the supreme court has ruled the police get a certain amount of whoopsies when it comes to your constitutional rights and you get zero
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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.