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Judge finds misconduct by Trump's DOJ in Luigi Mangione case (www.rawstory.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36424550

Donald Trump's Justice Department is under fire by a federal judge after uncovering "multiple employees ... may have violated" local rules guaranteeing a right to a fair trial for so-called "healthcare shooter" Luigi Mangione.

U.S. District Court Judge Margaret Garnett wrote on Wednesday that Mangione documented several incidents in which members of the Southern District of New York made public statements that are in violation of Criminal Rule 23.1.

The judge shredded the DOJ, saying that she issued an order on "April 25, 2025, specifically identifying the strictures of this rule for counsel and directing the prosecution team to ensure that the highest levels of the Department of Justice, up to and including Attorney General Bondi, were aware of and understood they were bound by this Rule."

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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.640793/gov.uscourts.nysd.640793.53.0.pdf

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Mistrial. Dismissed.

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    [–] 183 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Not that it would happen, but can you imagine if the case ends up getting dismissed with prejudice before trial over that?

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  • [–] 73 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Even more fun, if they rush the federal case forward instead of letting the state go first, he would be shielded prosecution at the state level the second jeopardy attaches (New York state law disallows prosecution of crimes which have already been tried in another jurisdiction). If the feds then botch the case, they would have ruined both chances to prosecute.

    Given the level of competence we've seen so far, this seems like a very plausible scenario.

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  • [–] 76 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Except Rittenhouse just fucking showed up to a police riot with a gun hoping to the chance to shoot black people and Luigi actually stood for something.

    I’m sure in their mind they’re the good guys, but here in reality those two are not exactly equivalents.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Except Luigi clearly isn't the shooter. He looks nothing like the pictures, and the cops clearly planted the evidence.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This timeline would have been worth it.

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    [–] 47 points 1 year ago*

    Luigi Mangione for congress, since they've set the asinine precedent that running for office gets you out of consequences for crimes

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Also, they have to prove him guilty. This could go to trial and the evidence may still be insignificant to prosecute him. It all comes down to if what we've been told is true or not.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I don't know what else has been going on or what all is rumor, but if it sticks that his backpack being searched that had his manifesto and other incriminating things in it ends up being deemed an illegal search and becomes inadmissible, they may have very little evidence to go off of for prosecution.

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    • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    The entire US admin operates on misconduct these days

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    [+] -7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So I’m going against the grain a bit here, but why on earth does he always make those faces? It’s really kinda uncanny. Courtroom photos had him raising eyebrows in bizarre ways

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