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  • P_P@lemm.eeEnglish
    1305·
    13 days ago

    This dude is a hero.

    We need to be spreading the words “jury nullification” through out social media.

    Where’s the gofundme?

    • granolabar@kbin.melroy.org
      731·
      13 days ago

      SIDE NOTE: DON’T GET SCAMMED!

      Save your money, do your research. This guy will need the best lawyers and the best PR modern wage slaves can muster.

      The least we can do!

      But it starts with your dumb ass not blowing your load on the first thing to pop on some social media scam.

      Be master, he needs you to do better here.

      EDIT: there is still possibility it aint him… proceed with caution.

      Pigs needed a body at this point, anything could be happening.

        • granolabar@kbin.melroy.org
          211·
          13 days ago

          just speak with candor

          he will need best counsel and best PR, the working class social media idiots can muster imho

          you have to understand what he just started and who his challenging.

          if they can Epstein him, they will. if they can make into pedo child abuser they will…

            • granolabar@kbin.melroy.org
              91·
              13 days ago

              Prosecutor and the system will exert a lot of pressure and the defense will be limited that’s just the justice system.

              If you check reddit comments, the bootlickers are already coming out of wood work to explain away how deserves a conviction…

    • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
      112·
      12 days ago

      What about out right innocent decision? Ya Jury nullification if a boot licker gets on the Jury. But I know I’d be advocating for an innocent verdict if I was on the jury. Hell NYC just let a man who strangled a mentally ill person to death on camera walk because self defense. Luigi killing the CEO is a form of self-defense in my opinion.

      • Drusas@fedia.io
        9·
        12 days ago

        They are both the same: a jury voting “not guilty”. There is no such thing as an “innocent” verdict.

      • meco03211@lemmy.world
        181·
        12 days ago

        Jury nullification isn’t some secret third option. The jurors individually can only choose guilty or not guilty. If they are unanimous, that is the decision. If they are not unanimous, it’s a hung jury effectively voiding the entire court process up to that point. The government then needs to decide if they want to re-file and try again.

        Jury nullification is when evidence is presented establishing clear guilt and the jury still renders a not guilty verdict. 5th amendment prohibits double jeopardy so they cannot be retried.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      Where’s the gofundme?

      Gofundme does not allow funds for criminal defense. That’s been their policy for many years.

    • Josey_Wales@lemmy.world
      42·
      13 days ago

      Is he repped yet? If not and anyone knows how to get in touch with his people please contact me. I have a line on a few free attorneys that take cases of this magnitude.

    • blazeknave@lemmy.world
      1·
      12 days ago

      I don’t get this whole hype. Do we need words to explain to people they can do this? I didn’t know there was a term for it, but the concept that someone can vote not guilty for contextual reasons is a thought I’ve had over my lifetime. Not common?

    • aramis87@fedia.io
      181·
      13 days ago

      GFM will disable the fundraiser; one of their restrictions is that the fundraiser can’t be used for “the legal defense of financial and violent crimes”. Wait until things are farther along. There may be some kind of defense fund announced. If there isn’t, then my personal suggestion would be to mail anonymous cash to his lawyers (once they’re announced), saying it’s to be used for his defense.

  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world
    163·
    13 days ago

    “I do apologize for any strife or trauma, but it had to be done,” the Ivy League graduate reportedly wrote in a manifesto admitting to killing UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson. “These parasites had it coming.”

    Luigi Mangione—the 26-year-old man arrested in Pennsylvania Monday on gun charges and suspected of last week’s assassination of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson—was carrying a manifesto condemning insurance industry greed, police said after his apprehension.

    New York Police Department (NYPD) Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Mangione was in possession of a 9mm handgun—possibly a ghost gun made with numerous parts or a 3D printer—the type used to kill Thompson, as well as a silencer and what he described as an anti-corporate manifesto.

    Three bullet casings were inscribed with the words “deny,” “defend,” and “depose”—a phrase commonly used by critics to describe insurance industry tactics to avoid paying patient claims. UnitedHealth, the nation’s biggest private insurer, is notorious for denying more claims than any other insurance company.

    Mangione’s social media posts run the gamut from praising the opinions of right-wing figures like Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson to leaving positive reviews on Goodreads for books including Dr. Seuss’ cautionary environmental tale The Lorax and the manifesto of Theodore Kaczynski—better known as the Unabomber.

    “He had the balls to recognize that peaceful protest has gotten us absolutely nowhere and at the end of the day, he’s probably right,” Mangione controversially opined of Kaczynski, whom he called “an extreme political revolutionary.”

    “When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive,” he asserted.