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.
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.
Except that the prosecutor’s office has stated that no plea deal exists, and they’re still free to pursue the maximum sentence. That’s what makes the whole thing so confusing.
There’s basically no legitimate reason for him to plead guilty at this point, except for “I’m tired of this, just get it over with.” Pleading guilty only hurts his case, and doesn’t help him at all.
The prosecution isn’t in charge of the sentence though. He is still more likely to get a shorter sentence by confessing and pleading guilty.
so what if the reason is money. what if they are paying him/his family to just make this go away. what if someone offered him $100 million to just say he did it in order to keep us from continuing to talk about him as hero, st luigi, etc…
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.
Correct. The charges are different, but they’re both for the same action, so they fall under New York’s double jeopardy law.
There’s no federal murder statute, but stalking that results in death is very similar. That’s what he plead guilty to, and it still carries up to life in prison.
But it gets rid of the state case.