Posted on 09/21/2025 7:36:20 AM PDT by DFG
Alleged murderer Luigi Mangione said his rights have been violated and wants the death penalty indictment against him dismissed ahead of a December hearing.
Mangione’s legal team filed a 118-page motion to dismiss the death penalty indictment against him on Saturday in the U.S. District Court for Southern New York.
His legal team said the case has received “monumental attention from the press and public as well as from politicians and law enforcement officials.”
They wrote that New York City Mayor Eric Adams, the New York Police Department and the FBI “staged an intentionally televised ‘perp walk’ where a phalanx of heavily armed agents with long guns slow-walked a heavily shackledMangione” to the federal courthouse in Manhattan ahead of his arraignment hearing in federal court on April 25.
Mangione’s legal team alleged that Attorney General Pam Bondi “rolled out” the Trump administration’s “death penalty agenda by making the Mangione case the first in which her Justice Department would seek the death penalty.”
U.S. prosecutors refused the defense team’s request to present mitigating factors because they already decided to pursue the death penalty, “based on politics, not merit,” according to Mangione’s defense attorneys.
They said federal prosecutors violated Mangione’s constitutional rights and overcharged him with murder charges related to terrorism.
The federal court on Tuesday dismissed two terrorism-related charges due to a lack of supporting evidence, and Mangione’s legal team wants the death penalty indictment dismissed.
According to his lawyers, Mangione’s constitutional and statutory rights were violated by Bondi through comments she made in a news release, on social media and during an April 6 appearance on Fox News.
Bondi violated a federal secrecy mandate regarding a grand jury investigation by making prejudicial statements and staging a “perp walk” that violate Mangione’s Fifth Amendment and Eighth Amendment rights, his attorneys argue.
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Given that any jury trial could very likely be filled with insane liberals, many of whom have been protesting in support of this lunatic, I would not be surprised if this guy either gets off or is convicted of a much lesser charge than murder.
alot of people made money off of him.
in $UNH stocks of course. since buffet invested a big chunk into unh recently people followed suit and over night some of the options were worth 100,000’s
i made money too, doesn’t mean i’d insure with them of course. the death panel is true and it’s inside every health insurance company
He’s a murderer, so he has no rights.
I’ll bet Hock A Lugi has 20 Feral Dipstick Female judgettes just dying to be the black robed bimbo to turn him loose.
A fair trial? Like the one he gave Brian Thompson?
If he’s gets off with committing murder without the penalty, then our justice system is completely broken.
exactly- luigi is on arrogant twerp
You do remember OJ Simpson, right?
Why is it that we bend over backwards to accommodate criminals? This was pre-meditated murder, plain and clear.
Yes. This murder was caught on camera, though. It’s very obvious to see that he was the killer.
I apologise for making that personal to you. I mean to say:
Have we forgotten OJ Simpson so soon?
The very next Democrat president would pardon him, or at least commute his death sentence. And it takes decades to execute anyone in this insane country.
Mangione and Charlie’s killer are both crazed narcissists.
Well Luigi, if you didn’t do nothin’ then it wouldn’t be nothin’.
NY won’t kill him.
100%, think about it, how difficult would it be to convict a Democrat of corruption in Washington DC ??
In NYC, people are protesting for his freedom outside of the courthouse when he makes an appearance, all it would take is 1 person to hang the jury and it’s entirely believable to me that he could get off or convicted of a much lesser charge.
He deserves the same rights he afforded to Brian Thompson.
Shooting an innocent American family man in the back is a new Gen Z “core value” and “America tradition.”
No worries. All good here.
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