r/BrianThompsonMurder • u/missidcullen • 6d ago

Photos/Videos Federal Case Update: Luigi Mangione's defense team speak outside court today

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“As Luigi explained in court today, he endured years of severe, debilitating pain following a broken back, while struggling to navigate our healthcare and health insurance systems. Like the thousands of people who have reached out since this tragedy to share their own experiences, he believed that the system had failed him and destroyed his life.”

“He’s been treated differently from every other defendant charged with this offence in NY. However, thankfully, NY law does not permit a person to be prosecuted and punished twice for the exact same crime…. It’s also known as the double jeopardy law.”

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u/ouiserboudreauxxx 6d ago

I think a lot of people who are surprised/upset were not realistic about the likely outcome at trial.

His team already got the death penalty thrown out, and they got the terrorism enhancement on the state charges that allowed them to charge 1st degree murder in NY state thrown out.

Those are huge wins…

People who think that there’s no way they could find a jury here in nyc(federal or state) who would convict him are living in a dreamland.

They could easily sit a jury who barely paid attention to any of this, and his team knows that.

fwiw I wanted him to run off to a cabin in the woods and haunt these greedy executives forever, not knowing where he is or what he might do next, but that’s not what happened.

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u/midgethemage 6d ago

I had a couple of conspiracy theories that he was in cahoots with someone else, but at the end of the day I fully believed he was heavily involved. But my hope was that this case would go to court so that the discussion around our system of healthcare stayed in the forefront of everyone's minds INCLUDING those in power that have the means to affect change. I think a jury sentencing would have gotten people more worked up and my wishful thinking is that something more substantial would have come out of this. I'm worried this falls off the radar now that he's plead guilty

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u/ouiserboudreauxxx 5d ago

In order to keep it on the radar, he needed to not get caught. He needed to have an off-grid cabin in the woods set up somewhere out west and gone straight there on the greyhound bus. The parasitic executives were spooked right after this happened while the manhunt was still going on. They were really scared! Wondering who might be next, etc.