Posted on 02/22/2025 3:59:17 PM PST by RandFan
A lawyer for Luigi Mangione, accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has argued that the 26-year-old is not being granted the right to a fair trial.
The comments came during a brief procedural hearing on Friday, which drew hundreds of supporters - some from as far as Kansas - chanting the defendant's name and wearing shirts adorned with his face.
Mr Mangione arrived in court with his hands and legs shackled, wearing a green sweater and a bulletproof vest. He has pleaded not guilty to the New York charges.
The killing of Mr Thompson, 50, a husband and father of two, sparked a nationwide conversation about the US healthcare system, unleashing pent-up anger at the industry and some ugly reaction.
Chants from Mr Mangione’s supporters could be heard from the court’s 15th floor on Friday.
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Why would you presume that? It appears there is some moronic sympathy for this murder.
Jury nullification
No functioning gaydar among any of them.
Just give him the Trump Treatment....
they caught him with the murder weapon and a written confession.
Why is this even going to trial?
“So many lovelorn women in that crowd.”
If I weren’t married, bald, sick and old I’d be there to provide much needed relief.
I blame the decline in fern bars.
While this guy killed a POS, you just can’t do that
in our society, we have laws.
I don’t have a single regret over the mans death,
but we can’t allow independent people being judge,
jury, and executioner.
If we did there would not be too many Democrat
politicians in the USA.
Media reports for more clicks to keep viable so subscribers don’t walk
They "pen-pal" them and usually end up offering to marry them.
It's definitely a disturbing phenomenon.
“”I don’t have a single regret over the mans death,””
Wow.
Fry this POS.
1st degree murderer.
Everything hinges on the jury pool.
I heard a “top of the hour” news blurb yesterday, and the Fox news reporter was almost giddy and breathless as she reported on Lugi’s court appearance. Instead of speaking of the murder itself, she was reporting on the murderer’s fan-base.
Our nation is broken.
Luigi : “Look, I’m just an Italian plumber. I’m innocent. But my brother Mario, he’s always getting into trouble”.
Read this;
https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=2118
There are people the world is better off without.
Not up to me to choose. But I’ll ask a question,
If you could have stopped Hitler, Stalin. or Mao
would you?
Care to elaborate why you have no regret over someone getting killed?
Who gives a #### about some a####es who see him as some sort of hero.
He’s a spoiled, WEALTHY, demented piece of garbage that needs to go to prison or be executed.
I know your views are libertarian and I guess populist...NEITHER of those, from what I knew about them, would endorse his act of MURDER.
And bro, you don’t hide your quiet support for this guy well AT ALL...just a friendly FYI in case you thought you were hiding it well :)
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