After a five-day manhunt, Mangione was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He faces state charges in Pennsylvania for allegedly carrying an unlicensed firearm, forgery, and providing false identification.
And if they located him via illegal means, none of that is admissable…
That’s the chink they need to hammer on.
The woman who “called it in” did so because some random man walked up to the counter, identified Luigi to the worker, told her there was a large reward and she should call.
The chances of that truly being a random person who recognized him, and wanted him turned in, but didn’t want to make the call themselves is astronomical.
And that’s not getting into how unbelievable fast the response was.
Whatever means they actually used to locate him, they can’t say. So you hammer their unbelievable explanation and ask the jury if they believe it, or if it sounds like a cover story.
It blows a giant hole in the prosecution’s case, and raises doubts about the entire investigation
But doesn’t that just affect his state charges? Aren’t his federal charges the one that are the real issue?
Tainted evidence is tainted evidence…
Like, if the state illegally finds proof you committed a crime, so they can’t use it, that doesn’t mean the feds get to. So let’s say the stuff in his backpack was already in there, and there is some plausible explanation for all the “smoking gun” evidence to not have been noticed till like 11 hours later…
No one can use what was in the backpack if they were led to it via illegal methods.
It’s just inadmissible and the prosecutors have to deal with losing it if they can’t show a parallel investigation had a reasonable chance of discovering it.
Can you explain why it was through illegal means? I don’t get that part.
If they found him via legal means, then that’s the way they would have said they found him
A mystery man telling a woman at the counter to call before leaving minutes before swat moved in would just be a huge coincidence.
They knew he was on the bus and where it was stopping and they prepared for him.
But hey, maybe I missed something. But as far as I can remember law enforcement lost the benefit of the doubt a long time ago. I just don’t trust the police in general at this point.
McDonalds will probably reward that worker with a free drink and a McDouble. No raise. Extra hours.
A cynic would say they intentionally choose a minimum wage worker to fracture the working class.
Especially with trump in office and the pressure he’ll put on the DOJ, this trial could be a breaking point.
If it comes up the cops (more likely feds) set that up, it’s not only going to get Luigi free, it might actually lead to the 99% fighting back in the class war that’s been going on here longer than America has been a sovereign country.
trump won’t be able to handle Luigi walking free, and he’s gonna over reach
Sad that this innocent man needs to defend himself. I wish they would look for the real killer.
the real killer? isn’t brian thompson already dead?
