In a stunning reversal, Luigi Mangione‘s lawyers told a judge Thursday that he will no longer be asserting a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The retraction came just a day after Mangione’s lawyers told Judge Gregory Carro that they planned to pursue a defense involving claims that the 28-year-old Ivy League graduate was suffering from extreme emotional disturbance at the time of the Dec. 4, 2024, killing.
I mean, his best defense is he didn’t fucking do it.
eh… that depends on how hard the state and federal prosecution/courts are gonna finger-bang him.
which is probably a lot
seems like his lawyers triad to bluff the prosecutors with a new defense strategy, and they didn’t get any traction in pretrial motions, so they’ve dumped it.
this guy’s getting railroaded. no blame on the defense for testing out some ideas…
Agreed, they already got a miracle ruling that the backpack evidence found cannot be used.
He was at my house watching Lord of the Rings at the time, so I don’t see how he could have fucking done it.
Even without joke alibis, he clearly isn’t the shooter. He looks nothing like the pictures. Like, different bone structure and everything.
I hadn’t heard this before, you think this guy was like “I really want everyone to swoon over me, and will risk being prison pretty boy for clout!”
No, like, they grabbed a random person at the mcdonalds
And clearly planted evidence while illegally searching him.
Where did you see that?
The system doesn’t care. They need to prosecute someone for daring to kill one of the elites.
He was with me in New Zealand touring hobbiton and growing out his foot hair.
We were playing WoW at a LAN party, dozens of my friends saw him, it was an all nighter.
goddamn i love lotr
Me too. It’s why so many of us were watching it together.
I saw him going into your house from the ring cam across the street, so I don’t see how he could have fucking done it.
Me and some redditors looked at hours of footage and were able to follow the suspect south into jersey. Idk what the FUCK the FBI were doing in Pennsylvania harassing and planting evidence on my boy LUIGI.
Because at some point, they realized they weren’t actually going to be able to catch the person who did it.
If they didn’t arrest someone, they would have invited copycats.
They can’t let the public even consider that vigilante justice is possible. At all times, they must appear competent.
Based on what they were saying during the shooting investigation, they were truly stuck.
Whoever did it was Law Abiding Citizen-level meticulous. I don’t want to speculate too much, but one thing is clear:
There’s no chance in hell that, if they caught the real shooter, they would have found incriminating evidence on him, not unless he wanted them to for some reason.
They arrested someone to control the narrative.
There’s a truth we’re not allowed to acknowledge: violence has often been used throughout history as a response to disenfranchisement and injustice.
Many people in the modern world have been conditioned to believe that only the state can decide when violence is justified. In that sense, we’ve domesticated ourselves. Yet every individual remains capable of resistance, and powerful institutions are not infallible.
They are comfortable in their control, and the most dangerous thing this shooting did was remind people that we’re not powerless.
We just live in a state of learned helplessness.
He was hanging out with me at the time of the killing. He couldn’t have done it.