Personally: no & yes. For the latter, a legitimate court of law ought to laugh at this case. But that’s not what he is facing.
The subject came up in conversation, so I figured I would take the temperature here.
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Brian… Johnson? 🤔
Good catch, Johnson is the guy who monitors his son’s erections.
Don’t forget about the vice versa!
No it is extremely obvious that Luigi Mangione is innocent and they are trying to frame him. There is no evidence and the case has had many legal errors and tampering.
I’m skeptical. They couldn’t find the shooter. Then they found a bag that looked like his, filled with monopoly money (no weapon). Then somebody at a McDonald’s calls because Luigi kinda looks like the guy. Luigi decides to hang out and eat his shitty fast food at a leisurely pace. Cops show up and supposedly find the weapon on him.
I think it’s more likely that they found the weapon with the bag, but opted to keep that quiet so they could plant it on whoever they grabbed. If Luigi is the shooter, and he still had the gun when he left NY, then why the fuck wouldn’t he have tossed it into a random river along the way? Wasn’t it a “ghost gun” that he could easily dispose of and not have traced back to him? Wasn’t that the point of it? Isn’t that why it would’ve made sense to leave it with the bag?
The job of the jury is to either find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt or let him go free. I have reasonable doubt. I’m not sure what evidence they’re gonna reveal that will convince me, but I’m also not gonna be selected for that jury. I just don’t believe in ruining the entire life of somebody whose only provable crime was that he enjoyed McDonald’s in Altoona.
It’s also crucial to point out that the chain of custody of “his backpack” was utterly fucked - the cop in question apparently started searching the bag at the McD’s, then just chucked it in her car, drove back to the station, and “continued the search there”. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Combine this with how DESPERATELY they tried to portray him as a super dangerous criminal, as well as how some of the surveillance footage of him is like… kinda obviously not him, and I’m extremely suspicious that he was just a guy who fit the description and they pinned it on him.
But also, even if he actually did it, if I were on the jury, I’d vote to acquit.
Wouldn’t the jury take it at face value that the gun was found on him? The other pieces you mentioned are speculation.
Occam’s razor, the simplest explanation is usually right. So obviously Bryan Johnson was killed by Charlie Kirk
Well…
CK did want guns readily accessible. CK did say gun violence deaths were a sacrifice he was willing to make.
Given the fact that Luigi might be pinned for the crime, it’s equaly likely that CK truly has had a larger share of responsibility in the health mogul’s demise.
Honestly no, I feel the governments case is pretty thin and there are some serious questions about evidence. Honestly they might not even have the right guy, a masked man in manhattan could be anyone, Luigi really could have just been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
It doesn’t matter. Once the legal circus ends, he’ll be executed anyway. The rich want him gone and they don’t have to follow the same rules the rest of us do.
they would punish anyone for even daring to try shit like this, let alone someone who succeeded.
Do you believe Luigi Mangione killed Bryan Johnson?
Do I think he’s more likely than not the killer? Yes. Do I think that “beyond a reasonable doubt”? No, BUT I haven’t spent as much time studying the facts of the case as I hope each juror has.
Can he be found guilty with the evidence against him?
Of course. With the right frame job, my cat could be found guilty of the murder.
Don’t worry, you’re in good company. Most of the people who think he did it never bothered to look at the facts either. I know because if you did, you’d go “wait what the fuck”
no and depends on how corrupt the judge is
I would say that there’s enough doubt about the situation that if I were on the jury, I don’t think I could in good conscience find him guilty.
That being said, if the actual trial brought out really good evidence, we’ll see how it goes, but from what I’ve seen on the news? No.
If he had actually done it I feel like he wouldn’t be getting railroaded like he is because they would have real evidence
What I believe doesn’t matter.
You know you can just not participate. No reason to type out a whole comment you just don’t have to comment at all
Believing that my belief doesn’t matter is no more or less valid than believing that he either did or did not do it.
Probably and yes. From what I have seen there’s too much incriminating evidence for it to all be faked without assuming a level of competence from those involved that is very improbable.
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Don’t get me wrong, ethically this situation becomes very complex, but let’s not kid ourselves: the evidence is unfortunately very strong. In fact this is one of the easier cases for the prosecution to try imo.
To prove intent under the statute of Murder 2 in NY they have:
- a weapon him
- matching shell casings
- video evidence
- cellphone data linking him to a route away from the scene
Cause of death is self-evident.
There is no legal justification applicable here (self defense, …)
There’s also a chance this will get a terrorism enhancement. Supporting evidence would be the targeted nature, the casings and manifesto.
He can go for an insanity plea or extreme emotional disturbance, however this usually goes to the punishment phase and not the trial phase, making this almost irrelevant for the conviction.
The one thing he has going for him is jury nullification. This is legally dubious and usually can and should not be argued, for very legitimate reasons; however the jury can make their decision basically without justification and therefore this is very plausible. The probability is a different question which is hard to answer.
I do not like murder, but I sympathize a lot with him, however especially because of that I also have to keep it realistic and accept that legally the case against him is pretty strong.
TL;DR there’s strong evidence against him, and if there’s no jury nullification he will most likely be convicted.
