Police continue to spoon-feed the public evidence of Luigi Mangione's wrongdoings, thereby denying him the right to a fair trial. Today they claim his fingerprints are a match to the fingerprints found at the scene of the crime. Ouch.
I will admit it's weird that I'm so invested in this one. I've never been invested in any court case, ever. I guess this one hits different. On top of matching fingerprints there is also allegedly a hand-written journal that essentially admits to the crime. That and the fake ID found at McDonalds was the same one used at the hostel in New York. Open and shut case, boys!
"To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone.
"This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience.
"The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there.
"I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done.
"Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy.
"United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but [h]as our life expectancy?
"No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.
"Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain.
"It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty."
So there are some armchair sleuths on the interwebs that are trying to say this manifesto was written by AI, and now I can't unsee it. This "confession" reads absolutely nothing like his social media posts. It's not smart or snarky or have any of the same tones we see elsewhere. And the fact that the very first sentence is bootlicking the feds absolutely sends me. Like oh he has zero respect for greedy capitalism but is also a patriot that loves America? Please... that doesn't even make sense. The entire thing is completely disjointed and reads like a lazy homework assignment.
A fair number of conspiracy theorists online are completely convinced that Mangione is going to end up dead before trial... to the point of saying anyone who disagrees is completely out of touch with reality. Hm, yeah, well, color me out of touch. If he were to die no one is going to believe the narrative that's being painted. And if this was a frame-job the entire point of mopping up this collateral damage is to prevent copy-cat events. That's not going to happen if he gets Martyred and hailed as a hero by a bunch of people.
Wow he's giving the American people a fair amount of credit here, amirite?
Why do the police not want him talking to the press?
Oh right because the entire point is to defame him.
"We only know what we have read in the media," the family statement said.
Even his own family has no idea what's going on.
So nobody even knows his side of the story or what claims he is making.
Again... weird.
Mangione's lawyer is like a caricature of what someone might think a lawyer could be if they had only seen them in the movies. Apparently he's actually a pretty good lawyer but he's also running around saying crazy shit like there's zero evidence against his client. What a weird twist.
Now we just need Joe Pesci and James Franco to sign the contract for a guaranteed slay.
Some people have been talking about Jury Nullification... which is where the Jury can decide someone is innocent or guilty regardless of the evidence. Although it's always used in regard to the acquittal of the guilty party and not the other way around.
I would guess the chance for actual nullification here is near zero because it would have to be a unanimous decision. That can't happen because this issue has been left vs right politicized. For this same reason it's also highly likely that we get a hung jury or a mistrial... perhaps even multiple times in a row despite the overwhelming evidence... which, let's be honest: would be a really really bad look for the judicial system. I wouldn't complain. The police state can suck rocks.
This is a far more likely avenue that the defense would pursue because it's already an accepted narrative of the case. He was in so much pain that he had a psychotic break from reality. Would be interesting because this is normally a very difficult escape route to navigate.
Wow... just wow. No comment.
The most difficult path to a not-guilty verdict would be accusing the establishment of blatant and systemic corruption. If this path is chosen I would almost certainly believe it was the truth since it has almost a zero-chance of working unless there's actual hard evidence to back it up.
I'm not a lawyer so I can't really speak to this one but who knows.
What's actually going to happen is that this kid is going to get life in prison and the world will continue spinning on as the memory of it fades into oblivion. That's what we should expect anyway. But you never know this is Clown World rules after all.
He continues to fight against New York extradition but how could that possibly work?
Fox News seems to be in the right place at the right time when it comes to the content being issued to the public (like being the only news crew behind the courthouse). They're also extremely biased in the reporting even when it comes to interviewing friends and family.
There's an interview that I'm having trouble finding where a friend of Mangione claimed it was him that suggested they read and analyze Ted Kaczynski manifesto and the interviewer turns on him like he's the problem and pretends like true crime doesn't absolutely fascinate people in USA. Pretty weird behavior to be honest. Nobody said Fox News was unbiased... except for Fox News of course.
https://x.com/RubinReportShow/status/1866946054823813522
Took forever but finally found it... I guess this is a roommate.
2 minutes in.
YOU suggested reading Ted Kaczynski's book?!?
w-w-why why were you interested in that?
lol what?
Oh I'm sorry does that not jive with the narrative being built?
stfu.
His twitter account got verified while he was in prison.
Who is controlling his social media accounts?
This is definitely one of the weirdest trials I have ever seen... and the trial hasn't even started yet. Will it calm down and get boring or will more layers of the onion be peeled back in the days to come? It's a shame YouTube blocked "the truth" from being revealed today. I guess we'll have to wait!
