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“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.

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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 86 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Luigi is an innocent patsy. The cops planted the evidence on the first convenient person they found.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

remember that TIP, they baited the people to ID him.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (4 children)

They baited people to find anyone that might look like the shooter.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

He just looks too distinct, and quite frankly too chiseled to match the fuzzy photos of the actual killer.

Sure, because his mug shot isn't a fuzzy pixelated photo.

the investigators involved felt pressure to wrap the case up as quickly as possible most likely led to them grabbing the wrong person

If they have the wrong person, it should be fairly simple for Luigi to produce an alibi to explain that he wasn't in Lower Manhattan at the time of the murder.

Pennsylvania isn’t particularly big, and it’s literally next door to NYC.

It's enormous. 44k mi^2. And he was halfway across it when he was arrested. Again, if he's innocent, and they just grabbed a random guy out of a random diner in flyover territory, and the guy has a long, established online presence and a penchant for selfies, it shouldn't be hard at all to say "My cell phone tracking data proves I wasn't anywhere near Brian Thompson at the time of his death."

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Reddit tries to suppress all discussions related to Luigi, but remember, we have a dedicated community for him: !luigimangione@lemmy.world

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Luigi was a wakeup call as to just how heavily information can be censored when it affects the powers at be. I really don't know what to believe anymore. It feels like there's no objective reality.

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

Guy is going to jail, the grave, or both. Guilty or not the state is not letting a little thing like police evidence tampering or innocence get in the way of him paying for the consequences being brought home to that CEO. Truth was publicly spoken to power, and someone has to pay for that in the states eyes.

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