- Luigi Mangion, accused of killing CEO of UnitedHealthcare Brian Thompson, He seeks to avoid the death penalty, claiming that the public prosecutor general bondi’s publicly and political justification violated his right to a fair trial. His legal team claims that Bondi’s statements, which assume the guilt of Mangion and promoting the political agenda, bought all the jury and ruined the lawsuit.
Last year, Luigi Mangion, a 26-year-old man accused of murdering CEO of Unitedhealthcare Brian Thompson in New York, seeks to avoid the death penalty in the state, saying that his case had become politicized.
Mangion not pleaded guilty State and federal murder charges after Thompson was dropped outside the Manhattan Hotel in December. After the criminal left the bicycle and escaped through the central park.
League League graduate and UPENN graduate, Mangion was arrested in Pennsylvania in connection with the case and was subsequently accused.
Murder Thompson caused A wide conversation about healthcare in AmericaAnd also some ugly reactions. Some people have decided to support the Mangion for his alleged actions, believing he disputes the status of corporate America.
Despite the fans who scored Mangion, loud people also called for The most difficult suggestions for the suspect The accused of the murder of Thompson, the father of two.
Pamela Bondi Prosecutor General was one of them, Speaking on 1 April: “I ordered the federal prosecutor to seek the death penalty in this case when we carry out the President Trump’s agenda to stop violent crimes and again do America safe.”
Bondi watched the statement with a general message about the US Department of Justice Instagram Page, who proclaimed: “The murder of Luigi Mangion Brian Tompsan-Birch and the father of two young children was a deliberate, cold murder who shocked America.”
This statement is very unusual, because it states that Mangion has committed a crime that he judges – a direct reduction in his legal right is considered innocent until he is guilty.
Moreover, Bondi’s statement presented further legal consequences for the right of Mangion to a fair trial, protected as part of the sixth amendment.
The main of the questions is that the potential jurors for the trial – brought to prejudice against the accused before the start of the case – can affect Bondi’s statement and thinks his guilt rather than make sure.
Once again the right of mangions for impartial jury is protected by constitutional.
Thus, Bondi’s statement is a complete fall of the name for President Trump and meant the guilt of the suspect who had not yet gone to the trial – was undermined by the defense team of the Mangion as a “political trick”.
In the Flows on Friday, which was seen WealthThe Mangion team wrote: “The rates may not be higher. The US government intends to score Mr. Mangion as a political trick … The actions of the Attorney General and public statements in this case did not follow the usual course.
“As the Attorney General decided to act in this way, the legal rights of the Mangion had already been violated, and the method that the government acted was the damage to the large jury and ruined the process of the great jury.”
The White House and the Ministry of Justice addressed Wealth For comment.
Avoid the death sentence
The Mangion team seeks to avoid the death sentence from Bondi’s actions.
The feed is explained: “Since the instructions of the Prosecutor General to (South District of New York) the prosecutor’s office – publicly issued as a press release – to seek a death sentence for Mr. Mangion, is a political, arbitrary, capricious, violation Punishment. “
Mangion’s lawyers also demanded to accept the list of actions to provide the customer’s right to a fair trial, including a survey of large jurors to influence Bondi’s public statements and “holding” Bondi to make any further statements.
They also ask Bondi to confirm that she had read the legal materials in which the suspect’s right to a fair trial was set.
Moreover, the defense asked for notes and documents that were shared as the southern district of New York considered the death penalty, and asked for “the government … Any emails, records, documents, memorandums and notes about any connection between the government official and anyone who advocates the death sentence.”
On the day of the first role of Prosecutor Bondi’s Prosecutor, a note called “The revival of the Federal Death Penalty and the Raise of the Maratory for Federal Shooting.”
Representatives of lawyers Mangion told Wealth They had no comment.
Originally this story was presented on Fortune.com
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2025-04-14 15:30:00
Eleanor Pringle
