Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty?
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoThe 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.
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.
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.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
The courts usually give an obscene amount of deference to the police. In a high profile case like this it’s possible they’ll be slightly more by the book… but usually they wrote the book to allow police to “reasonably” violate our constitutional rights, so that only goes so far.
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
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Yeah that’s my concern. The courts and the police are besties and they usually have each other’s backs unless something happens that’s so blatantly criminal that they can’t find a way to excuse it. Imperfect custody of evidence doesn’t sound that way to me, but I’m no expert.
The good news for Luigi is his case has a lot of public scrutiny, which can force the courts to behave a bit better in some cases.