Key Highlights
- Lawyers for the alleged assassin, Luigi Mangione, are asking a New York judge to suppress evidence taken from his backpack without a search warrant, including the suspected murder weapon and journals that allegedly shed light on his motives and plans, as well as statements he made before and after his arrest. This is not a dumb guy… I don’t think he would be responding with information after he asked for a lawyer.
- It sounds like it’s much more plausible that he was proud of what he did and wanted to put it out there.
- — Donna Rotunno, Chicago attorney"These are not totally implausible arguments being made by the defense and to allow those arguments to be made there has to be a hearing," said Christopher Slobogin, a Vanderbilt University Law School scholar and director of its criminal justice program.
- "And the facts are complicated enough that the hearing apparently has to be more than one day in order to establish the relevant facts." Still, he told Fox News Digital that the 27-year-old Mangione's arguments are all "long shots." FRIENDS, ACQUAINTANCES DEFEND MANGIONE FAMILY AS MEDIA DESCENDS ON ALLEGED CEO KILLER'S HOMETOWN Luigi Mangione, the Ivy League graduate charged with executing the head of America’s largest healthcare company on a Midtown sidewalk, is back in Manhattan court for an evidence hearing that could make or break his state case.
- (Steven Hirsch for New York Post via Pool) "The Supreme Court of the United States has made it very clear that if a person's been lawfully arrested, the police can do a warrantless search incident to that arrest of any objects on the individual's person except for their cellphone," he said. On Dec.
