Judge Margaret Garnett also ruled Friday to allow into Mangione’s trial evidence recovered from his backpack at the time of his arrest.

Law enforcement seized several items from Mangione’s backpack, including a handgun, a loaded magazine and a red notebook – key pieces of evidence that authorities have said tie him to the killing.

Why would he? We were playing stardew valley together at the time, and he was showing me how to reel in the legendary fish.

Finally, some good fucking news

Evil empire full of child killing pedofiles trying to kill the man who showed us the only way out ….im surprised people aren’t more pissed

What a strange requirement for a murder charge

Obviously. No innocent person should get the death penalty.

Shouldn't have been on the table in the first place.

"The judge disagreed, finding the stalking charges did not amount to “crimes of violence” and dismissed two counts in Mangione’s federal case – the murder charge and a related firearm offense.

“The analysis contained in the balance of this Opinion may strike the average person – and indeed many lawyers and judges – as tortured and strange, and the result may seem contrary to our intuitions about the criminal law,” Judge Margaret Garnett wrote in her ruling. “But it represents the Court’s committed effort to faithfully apply the dictates of the Supreme Court to the charges in this case.” "

Supreme Court: "Not like this..."

But Jonathan Ross should (I'm actually against the death penalty, even for those ice murderers, just venting)

"Shit, when we wrote the laws to subtly favor us, we were too subtle"

Understanding the Scope of Stalking Conduct

The federal statute defines the prohibited action as a “course of conduct,” requiring a pattern of behavior made up of two or more acts over time. A single, isolated incident of unwanted contact is not sufficient to meet the elements of the federal crime

Source: https://legalclarity.org/what-is-18-u-s-c-1801-federal-interstate-stalking-laws/

Could he get off since it only happened once?

The 1984 crime control act is kind of interesting. It was written to walk a line and really limit the death penalty for federal cases. The death penalty requires murder to be stacked with something like robbery, kidnapping, mob shit, etc.

Even though a premeditated murder would be considered a violent crime, the crime control act requires premeditated murder to be sandwiched within another violent crime to unlock the death penalty as a punishment option.

This is one of those things that appears to go right up to the line, but the judge ruled on precedent.

LETS GOOO

Wahoo!

Unless it's a pre-existing condition...