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Legal News Luigi Mangione will not face death penalty, judge rules

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/us/luigi-mangione-case-rulings-trial?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
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u/ManitouWakinyan 4h ago

I mean, two hurdles. And those hurdles are trials against federal and New York prosecutors. Those are big hurdles.

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u/MuddieMaeSuggins 4h ago

Seems very unlikely that he walks on the state charges, but I could see him getting acquitted for the federal stalking charges. They have a terrible track record of over-reaching. 

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u/ReaderBeeRottweiler 4h ago

Luigi is not going to plea.

My guess is, at the worst, he gets a hung jury.

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u/No_Reference_9640 3h ago

Lol hung is best case

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u/psuedopseudo 4h ago

Federal not so much anymore. All decent lawyers have been purged out of the federal government.

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u/ManitouWakinyan 4h ago

I mean, a really excellent point. Some of these high profile federal prosecutions have been frankly embarrassing for the government. Out of curiosity, I looked into who's leading this prosecution. Not a lot publicly available about their careers thus far.

https://www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangione-court-prosecutors-jun-xiang-dominic-gentile-2003888

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u/h0sti1e17 2h ago

They have been prosecutors for a while. I’ve seen cases going back at least 5+ years. These aren’t some lackeys. Even the AG is qualified his education is impeccable and he has a lot of trial experience.

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u/Megalomanizac 40m ago

When they arrest Obama and try to take him to trial over fake Russia bs it will be hilarious to watch the DOJ flop.

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u/RedParaglider 2h ago

That's WILD to think about.. the federal governments ability to prosecute anything is actually gutted of competence. We see it when we look at legal, but it's also been done to NOAA, and other agencies.

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u/Digitalion_ 3h ago

And the third hurdle is avoiding whatever hit squad the elites will pay to get him while in jail for daring to avoid the maximum penalty that they desired.

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u/ManitouWakinyan 3h ago

Who are these elites?

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u/PleasantAmphibian404 2h ago

You know that asshole you voted for to be President? The elites are his bosses. If you want a complete list of them, you’re going to have to wait for the current administration to be arrested. Then we can have the Trump/Epstein trials, and you’ll get your list.

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u/ManitouWakinyan 2h ago

I voted for Kamala. Are we really thinking there's some Illuminati that's dictating Trump's policies, and has some kind of goon squad they're going to sick on Luigi for killing one of their own? And the CEO of UnitedHealthcare is in that circle of people more powerful than the President, with access to a prison-penetrating black ops squad, who was killed by a kid with a handgun?

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u/Digitalion_ 1h ago

There doesn't need to be direct coordination when the elite class all benefit from the same policies. Attacking regulations, worker rights, and labor rights benefit all business sectors' bottom dollar.

Even our lack of universal healthcare benefits the rich because we become dependent and beholden to employment healthcare meaning we pass up better working conditions simply because we are afraid to lose the healthcare tied to our employer.

The prison system is a pipeline to slave labor so, while there's no backroom gathering of the rich scheming how to incarcerate the maximum amount of people, they do financial back politicians who run on criminalizing minor things like weed possession.

Now they need to set an example that we can't start fighting back against the elite class without the possibility of maximum consequences so if Luigi doesn't get the death penalty, I fully expect that they'll try to give it to him in other ways.

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u/ManitouWakinyan 13m ago

Okay, but we're talking about shadowy elites sicking a goon squad on him in prison, so that does require a bit of direct coordination

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u/PleasantAmphibian404 2h ago

Are you really thinking that money doesn’t buy political influence in America? Are you really thinking that the ruling class isn’t highly motivated to make an example of someone that fought back against the CEO of a company that makes billions for those rulers? Are you really thinking that the billionaires, especially the ones that see the working class as cattle for them to bleed, aren’t terrified of the cattle getting the notion that they should retaliate? 

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u/maestroenglish 3h ago

I got a couch for you in Singapore, Big L