“Even if this motion is successful, it doesn’t mean that Luigi Mangione walks out of prison,” said Ron Kuby, a criminal defense attorney whose practice focuses on civil rights. “All it means is that the items that were seized from him, or seized that belong to him, can’t be used as evidence against him.”
Kuby thinks that Mangione’s team has made enough claims in their papers to merit a hearing on the issues, in which the police officer involved would have to testify, confirming or denying the facts. “It does appear that they stopped and frisked Mangione without a legal basis to do it. If that’s true, everything that follows from there is likely to be found to be unconstitutional,” he said.
Luigi is an innocent patsy. The cops planted the evidence on the first convenient person they found.
Hardly call his arrest a convenience. They had to chase him halfway across Pennsylvania.
I’m open to the possibility he was set up. But only in the Lee Harvey Oswald sense (someone mired in radicalism who was tangentially involved). You’re going to have to produce a “second gunman” before I toss the abundance of evidence against him as a fabrication.
I’m not particularly remarkable in my looks, and I have so many doppelgangers that people are CONSTANTLY walking up to me claiming that my name is literally anything other than what my name is. I don’t believe this is at all a unique feature of my particular genetics, I just happen to have a face that is known as a “familiar face,” within both the art and acting sphere, as well as the psychological and sociological spheres of influence.
I’m saying that this concept absolutely applies to Luigi Mangione. He just looks too distinct, and quite frankly too chiseled to match the fuzzy photos of the actual killer. This being an extremely high profile case, in which the investigators involved felt pressure to wrap the case up as quickly as possible most likely led to them grabbing the wrong person, and planting evidence that the real killer abandoned on Luigi.
Pennsylvania isn’t particularly big, and it’s literally next door to NYC. You can either go directly from PA to NY and drive into the city from the north, or go through New Jersey. It takes longer to go north, but I think it is a better drive, TBH.
remember that TIP, they baited the people to ID him.
They baited people to find anyone that might look like the shooter.
That’s kind of how locating a suspect works… How else do you locate someone from a description when they have fled and are hiding in the general population?
Don’t rush. Don’t plaster the news with him after 72 hours. Let him think he got away and allow him to make another mistake.
So “don’t look for the suspect”? That seems like, super effective.
Stop snitching. Yeah, don’t look for the suspect outside of law enforcement private channels. Involving the public almost always ends in a “we did it Reddit” moment, which when the dust settles, and we find out the truth, did we realize that the mob picked a convenient target, and we effectively killed a person for no reason.
Law enforcement will find the perpetrator in the long run about 50% of the time. That’s all the deterrence that actually matters. Criminals don’t care about the sentence when they are commiting a crime.