The man accused of gunning down a health insurance executive in a brazen hit in New York that sparked fierce debate about the industry pleaded not guilty Monday to state charges including “terrorist” murder.

Monday’s hearing came after Mangione, 26, appeared in a New York court last week to face federal charges also including murder following his dramatic extradition by plane and helicopter from Pennsylvania, where he was arrested at a McDonald’s restaurant. The suspect is charged in both state and federal court in the December 4 shooting of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson.

People demonstrating against the industry gathered outside court Monday brandishing banners reading “free Luigi” and “innocent until proven guilty.”

If convicted in the state case, Mangione could face life imprisonment with no parole. In the federal case, he could technically face the death penalty.

Mangioni’s attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo has previously sought clarity on how simultaneous federal and state charges would work, calling the situation “highly unusual.”

Agnifilo raised concerns on Monday that Mangione could not receive a fair trial, and questioned why New York mayor Eric Adams had been present when Mangione was brought off a police helicopter at a Manhattan helipad last week. Aginifilo told local media Monday that officials “are treating him like he is like some sort of political fodder.” She said the sight of Mangione flanked by rifle-wielding tactical officers during the final stage of his extradition that was widely broadcast was “utterly political.”

43 points

Mad that the grand jury didn’t refuse to indict.

Hope the jury nullifies.

If he is found guilty, maybe it’ll be time for unrest.

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54 points

It’s already time for unrest.

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no! its time to vote!
hahahahaha. because, clearly, that has been working /sarcasm

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I’m voting as hard as I can! I can’t vote any harder!

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Looks like it’s been time for unrest for over fifty years now, since this kicked off in the early 70’s.

It shouldn’t have taken a murder to wake people up.

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3 points

That graph is probably the best one to show the exact moment where capitalism became absolutely obsolete.

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9 points

Yeah, he’s the start of it

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10 points

No, but he’s an escalation, and now’s not the time to back down.

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15 points

Yeah it’s past time, the working class has basically lost the class war and we’re just running on fumes now. At the same time, the owner class is working double time to implement AI so they can employ even fewer of us.

Anyone not in a corporate atmosphere is probably not as privvy to this, but it’s insane the effort going into replacing human work with AI. Of course it’s all under the guise of ‘improving working conditions’ or ‘keeping current employee levels’ but in the end you know they’re salivating at the thought of firing a bunch of people.

And we can’t fight progress but we sure as hell should be fighting for some kind of UBI and share of the work that gets done by AI.

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A grand jury is weird.

Selected at random like regular jurors, they are on duty for an extended period, they meet in secret and protected. They are only allowed to examine prosecutorial evidence, and only allowed to say if the collected evidence is enough to stand trial.

It’s not a great system mostly because some of the stuff they have no choice but to agree to indict with, or they get held in contempt themselves.

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The only other country in the world to use grand juries is Liberia.

Yeah, our system is shit.

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That doesn’t really matter.

A grand jury decides if theres enough evidence for an indictment, not determine guilt. Whether the evidence is enough for conviction, is not up to them. Only half is required to indict. A non-indictment is not an acquital.

Murder has no statute of limitations.

They’ll just wait for a different grand jury and get to try to get an indictment again, this time, probably with less media coverage and less scrutiny.

The petit jury, or trial jury, decides if evidence is legit. This is where it really matters.

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You can keep convening grand juries against someone for the same event until they agree to indict? That seems dubious. And is especially damning in the context of police that don’t get indicted and never go to trial.

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You can keep convening grand juries against someone for the same event until they agree to indict?

Think about it this way. The grand jury is basically taking on the role of a prosecutor for the sole decision of whether or not to indict, after that, the actual prosecutor takes over.

If you are a civillian, and the prosecutor that has jurisdiction refuses to prosecute, say, the murder of your child, you can then wait for the prosecutor to lose office (either by losing an election, or wait for someone else to get appointed, depending on how its selected in your area), then ask the new prosecutor to file the charges, and since murder has no statute of limitations, you can keep trying this until a prosecutor decides to indict.

This is essentially what a grand jury is. They are temporary taking the role of the prosecutor, for one act, and one act only, deciding whether or not to indict.

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17 points

This is US local news. Most countries in the world don’t have the issues of inequality caused by highly privatised health care like in the US.

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The problem is it spreads. It’s already taking over some provinces in Canada.

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Can confirm.

Source: BC resident looking at our eastward neighbours.

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Hell, BC almost elected John Rustad. Wasn’t it 600 votes between them and the BC NDP? Fucking terrifying.

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Nothing forbids sharing US news in this community. Anything interesting on the globe goes afaik :)

Also while many countries don’t have inequality issues in the “highly privatised health care” industry, I genuinely can’t name a single country without inequality issues and Luigi’s story may be inspirational to some of these ppl facing inequalities so imo it’s good to see it shared here!

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68 points

Great, his innocent. Now let’s give him back his gun and let him go. Somewhere near Elon Musk, maybe?

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Luigi? Nah. That’s not him in the video. It’s literally Saint Michael the Archangel! He personally came down to drag a wicked soul to Hell! Luigi just happens to bare a resemblance to St. Michael.

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Literally standard procedure for a criminal trial. I absolutely hate it.

It’s predicated on “never admit guilt, so we can wheel and deal in backrooms to make a plea deal.” They say plea deals are to keep courts from being packed and backed up, but it’s more about punishing the poorest who have no money to fight when they’re innocent.

Almost everyone always starts with a plea of Not Guilty. No matter how fuckin guilty they are or not. You could be the guiltiest motherfucker on the planet, and you’ll still have your lawyer tell you to plea Not Guilty.

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Eh, my lawyer recommended that I plead nolo contendere, but each case is different.

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Lmao, I defended myself against a bully in school and the pigs didn’t even do any investigation and took the school admin’s word for it and arrested me for “Agravated Assault”

They then did a “diversion” that basically I have to promise not to commit a crime for 6 months (like bitch, do I look like a fucking criminal to you?) and then case would be dismissed, and crucially, it did not include an admission of guilt, so I took it. But if it had included an admission of guilt, I’d fucking fight that shit to the end. Pull the CCTV, motherfuckers, see if that’s enough evidence.

Also, I learned that (via internet searches) if you are under 18, you do not get a right jury trial, but it also simultaneously can potentially have the same impact as an adult conviction. That’s was the most bullshit thing I’ve learned.

Oh wanna know some more bullshit I learned? USCIS can see all juvenile records for the past 5 years, even arrests that didn’t result in conviction (or technically, for juveniles, it’s called being “adjundicated delinquent”), even if sealed, expunged, or even pardoned, which could come into play if you aren’t a citizen (which, thank god figuatively, that I had derived citizenship from my mother’s naturalization, imagine the shitshow on the other, even shittier timeline).

(Also, USCIS can see ALL adult records, even arrests that didn’t result in conviction, doesn’t matter if sealed, expunged, or pardoned. They see it all. Fucking bullshit.)

I did not really had ACAB sentinments before, but now I’ve been radicalized by the police and I’ll fucking say ACAB, and now I’m very sympathetic towards anarchist movements.

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I think the failure of the phrase ACAB is that it pins the problems of the system just on cops. Corrupt lawmakers, judges, district attorneys, prosecutors, and defenders all play into this as well. Lawmakers made the laws defer to cops over citizens, judges treat a cops word as more truthful than a citizens, same with district attorneys and prosecuting attorneys. They’re all scratching each others back in a sick system where nearly all of them are essentially above the law. Cops are enabled by all the other groups.

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TWSIAB.

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Well the thing is if you plead guilty you’re immediately at the mercy of the judge. They simply decide on your sentence based on the provided information and give you a penalty in line with the laws around it.

Even if your the most guilty of the guilty, you’re generally better off having a jury trial to determine how guilty, how much punishment you deserve, and give your lawyer a chance to make sure you are sentenced fairly, as if you appear sympathetic you could get the minimum penalty rather than the maximum. The exception would be if you had an exceptionally good plea bargain for pleading guilty.

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7 points

Luigi isn’t poor or without money, though.

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Which, hopefully, he can use some of that for his attorney. That’s the problem with our dystopia. The poor are far too powerless to take matters into their own hands. They don’t have access to 3D printers, let alone ammunition and the academic rigour that wealth can provide to plot something like this. And I’m not talking the whole "getting away from it part. The hit was calculated.

That’s why the elite are pressing so hard against this. If more of their own (but lesser) become sympathetic to the larger population, then they are truly fucked.

Revolutions need resources. We’re in a society where the resources are so well controlled and industrialized that every little bit is tracked. It’s up to the people with any power to do something to do it.

That’s the message the elite doesnt want to spread. They don’t want people that have basic human empathy to turn against their handlers.

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The point in this one is to convince a jury that he’s not guilty of the exact charges. His lawyers will surely go the “not terrorism” route, but unfortunately he has other charges. I think the legal term is “stacking”?

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Yep, they’re hitting him with media-generating charges like first degree murder and terrorism, but probably can only make the second degree murder actually stick. That way they can drop the worst charges and still hit him with second degree.

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In NY state they must charge terrorism to get first-degree murder. Unless the victim is a cop or judge, then proceed.

It’s not a media thing, it’s what state law allows. Let’s talk about how fucked up that is instead.

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Highly unusual is an understatement. It’s either cruel and unusual punishment, or it’s double jeopardy. He’s being tried twice for the same crime.

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I support him, but you can be tried at the state and federal level for the same crime. You can’t be charged twice for the same crime at the same level.

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