Luigi Mangione plans to assert a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial, claiming he was suffering from extreme emotional disturbance when he gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a judge said Wednesday. It wouldn’t absolve him of the Dec. 4, 2024, killing, but could free him from prison sooner.
If a jury accepts that defense, the panel would convict Mangione of manslaughter and he would face up to 25 years in prison. Alternatively, the jury could reject the extreme emotional disturbance defense and convict him of murder, which carries a potential life sentence. That defense isn’t available in his federal case.
Obviously I am just an observer with only the media to get case information from but it’s always seemed pretty fishy to me
Officer Christy Wasser acknowledged Monday that her camera was off for roughly 11 minutes as officers transported Mangione’s belongings from the McDonald’s to the police station. The gun did not appear until a second search of the backpack — conducted after the body-cam gap.
Me too. I don’t think he looks enough like the guy at the bank counter(iirc) to be sure they’re the same person, and the fact that they only found the gun after taking the backpack back to the station is extremely suspicious.
My conspiracy theory is that, after the near-universal adulation of the killer, they’ve made Luigi a scapegoat in order to prevent any more killing of wealthy ghouls.
His fucking eyebrows grew 3 sizes in one night like the fucking grinch’s heart. When he was arrested he had two Mario moustache unibrows over his eyes and the security cam perp had Legolas eyebrows.
Not just the eyebrows, but the bank shot also had someone with a more angular face, their cheek bones looked different. In fact I thought the shooter originally from the bank picture was a woman. And was entirely surprised when they “caught” a man.
Admittedly lighting and perspective can play a huge role in making someone look different, but still, I’m not convinced Mangione was the shooter.
They would have picked an old black person and/or communist and/or muslim, not a cute white dude basicly anyone would fuck.
There’s no way it was him, he was hanging out with me at the time.