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.”

  • Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org
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    8 hours ago

    With any rate, Luigi will walk free and it’ll be the fault of these idiots who cannot allow their egos and pride to not get in the way of these things.

    And I love to see it.

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      7 hours ago

      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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        4 hours ago

        Has there been any rulings on some of the evidence yet? I thought there was a whole mess of chain of custody or other type problems with a lot of it.

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        That’s largely going to be dependent on a couple things;

        Luigi’s Attorney now has to hammer on this hard, hard enough to stick it through one ear hole and out the other through the thick skulls of the prosecutors. There are strong pieces of evidence now that say that Luigi’s 5th Amendment rights has been violated and that people from the DOJ have overstepped themselves.

        The other thing is whether anything is going to stick. Even if Luigi walks or is given lesser sentencing or whatever. Trump’s crazy ass or the crazy ass DOJ of his is still going to want to try and kill Luigi anyways by making him go through another trial by re-writing the rules.

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          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.