since people are upset with the NYPost article…
“With today’s guilty plea, Mr. Mangione has accepted full responsibility for the death of Brian Thompson,” Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Mangione’s attorney, said during a press conference outside the courthouse.
“On the morning of Dec. 4, 2024, I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan, and he died,” Mangione told the court, according to The Associated Press.
…why? why do this? the article didn’t seem to explain
My completely uneducated guess is that he and/or his lawyers know hes screwed no matter how innocent, and so the best option is to take a plea deal
It’s a legal strategy so they can claim double jeopardy for the state charges.
The feds were dumb because they only went after the stalking charges.
Some legal experts expect the double jeopardy attempt to be struck down because of how much popularity this has and we all know courts are easily manipulated by politics and money these days.
You can’t claim double jeopardy for duplications of state and federal charges, it’s already been settled that because of the dual sovereignty doctrine it does not conflict with the 5th amendment.
Yes you can. It’s a NY state specific law.
The reverse isn’t true, like you state though. This is just specific to NY only.
That can’t be it. You can commit multiple crimes in one act, and state and federal murder are separate crimes (federal involves crossing state lines, or something else that gives them jurisdiction). My guess is it was their last chance for a plea deal.
New York has a state specific double jeopardy law that would apply here. Charges at the federal level that stem from the same action are double jeopardy is also charged at the state level.
So if he pleads in the federal case, the state charges will be dropped. If he pleads at the state level though, the federal charges still stay.
Really, even though he’s pleading to the stalking charges, not murder? They can’t try him for that in New York?
NY prosecutors are disputing this. We certainly have not heard the last of it.