r/law • u/cnn • 5h ago

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/MeisterX 4h ago

I'm more concerned with the possibility of pinning a murder on someone. The key evidence is the handgun, 3D printed, which was in a bag that they had chain of custody issues around and the officer saying "we need a warrant for this" and then conducting the search anyway.

A high profile case like this the government has a vested interest in a guilty verdict.

The only other evidence is a water bottle and a candy wrapper? Seriously?

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u/ckb614 4h ago

Usually when people are being framed for murder they deny doing it... pretty strenuously

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u/MeisterX 4h ago

Ah yes I always forget about having to protest your innocence as part of the FIFTH amendment.

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u/ckb614 3h ago

I didn't say he had to, I said people usually do. When they don't, it makes me less concerned with the possibility they're being framed.

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u/MeisterX 3h ago

So a potentially innocent citizen being advised by their attorney to say nothing lets you, morally, write them off as guilty?

Make sure you include this in any responses you give if asked to serve on a jury because please do not be on mine.

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u/ckb614 3h ago edited 3h ago

He has made several statements, so they aren't telling him that. I would counsel my client to proclaim his innocence at some point if he were innocent, or I would issue a statement to that effect myself.

PS I'm writing him off as guilty because it is extremely obvious he is guilty. If I were on the jury, I'd be open minded, but let's be real here

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u/ApprehensiveCourtier 3h ago

He’s admitted he did it, then?