UnitedHealth CEO shot (1 Viewer)

[Madmarsha]

I can PROMISE you a good defense attorney will absolutely put the healthcare industry at the crux of the trial. They won't be named as a plaintiff or a defendant, but they will be a focal point of the defense. It's gonna be how you TRY TO make the jury sympathetic to his cause.

Unless he takes a plea deal of some kind.

Also, he doesn't have a "good defense attorney" yet. He has a local dude from Altoona that was hired within an hour of the hearing fighting extradition and giving pressers who hadn't even seen any evidence yet.

 

[SWJJ]

I gotta stop learning my law school stuff from netflix

 

[Madmarsha]

Motive is irrelevant. Intent is all that matters. TV has screwed that up for decades.

Defense will certainly try to bring in as much extraneous information as possible though

 

[superchuck500]

It remains highly unlikely that there will be a trial - purely on the probability, it almost never happens.

But also, it's already clear that he's guilty well beyond a reasonable doubt. The prosecution can connect Mangione to the gun (the one he had at arrest was at the scene of the murder hundreds of miles away) and they can put Magione there based on fingerprint evidence. Beyond that, the video evidence clearly matches his build and facial structure - by itself it's less compelling but with the gun and fingerprint evidence, becomes the final glue that makes it ironclad. The only thing more prosecutors could have would be an admission.

There's first going to be the question of his mental competency - which is hard to judge at this point. He seems fairly coherent and calculating, though those aren't the standards. But I suspect he'll be judged competent.

Then it becomes a question of what plea is offered and just how much he really wants to go to trial where he may be able to find some sympathy for the jurors . . . although that's much, much harder than people realize. It's easy to call him a folk hero standing up for the grotesque injustice that is the healthcare insurance industry but it's a symbolic killing - there was no actual relationship between the Mangione and Thompson. After the end of a competent and very clear case of murder is presented, and the jurors instructed about their duty to the law from the judge in what is a very sober environment, the likelihood of a Robin Hood scenario here is very, very low.

Everyone around him is going to be strongly encouraging him to take the plea.

 

[0rion]

Only person dating him currently resides in the prison system.

 

[B4YOU]

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Everyone around him is going to be strongly encouraging him to take the plea.

It's take a 1st degree murder plea for reduced sentencing or martyr yourself for a microphone hoping 1 person on the jury can't convict. I hope the kid takes the trial and speaks his piece.

 

[LonghornSaint]

What needs to happen to some people to wake them up to the fact that it's an exclusive club, and we'll never be in it. No amount of boot licking or squealing will get them to accept you.

Bizarre reason why McDonald's worker might not receive $60,000 reward for identifying Luigi Mangione

Luigi Mangione was arrested at the fast-food restaurant in Pennsylvania after a tip-off from an employee

www.unilad.com

So, she went out-of-network to report him, and is now going to be denied compensation? Hahahahaha, fitting!

 

[Madmarsha]

‘Wanted’ CEO posters and other threats emerge after Mangione arrest

The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has given rise to threats against health care industry workers and executives, as well as police officers involved in the case.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[superchuck500]

 

[DaveXA]

New Netflix series?

Been there and done that.

 

[Eeyore]

Maybe he can get out of this if his Mommy drove him across state lines for it?

 

[BlackandGoldXLIV]

Rubber gloves to not leave fingerprints, in case you have to ditch the weapon,

Ya know, for when you’re out there defending yourself.

 

[superchuck500]

 

[Saint Jack]

On a side note, the new Beavis and Butthead episodes are just as hilarious as the 90s episodes.
Old Man Beavis and Butthead is just as funny.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

On a side note, the new Beavis and Butthead episodes are just as hilarious as the 90s episodes.
Old Man Beavis and Butthead is just as funny.

so …like 3/10?