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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: SVPete on June 17, 2026, 03:53:10 PM
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Mangione's Lawyers to Fans: You Know He's Bat-Guano Crazy, Right?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/06/17/mangiones-lawyers-to-fans-you-know-hes-bat-guano-crazy-right-n3816054 (https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/06/17/mangiones-lawyers-to-fans-you-know-hes-bat-guano-crazy-right-n3816054)
Luigi Mangione's attorneys want to make it official, however, and his legion of adoring fans may end up devastated by the latest defense strategy. If it sticks, that is:
Luigi Mangione will assert a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a judge said Wednesday.
Judge Gregory Carro said Mangione’s lawyers have informed him they will attempt to show that he was suffering from “extreme emotional disturbance at the time of the occurrence.”
By asserting a psychiatric defense, Mangione would effectively be admitting that he killed Thompson but did so because of mitigating circumstances.
If a jury finds that Mangione was emotionally disturbed at the time of the killing, it could convict him of manslaughter instead of murder, meaning he’d be sentenced to less time in prison.
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The Mangionistas may want jury nullification, but Mangione's attorneys don't appear confident in his ability to sell a shot in the back as some form of cosmic justice. Not only will this defense require Mangione to admit to a crime, but it also means that the defense has to release all records of Mangione's mental health assessments and treatments to prosecutors. That will likely be true in the federal trial that Mangione faces as well:
IMO, if the prosecution is able to show planning - e.g. seeking out the target, selecting a weapon and location - and/or efforts to evade identification and/or capture, those should overcome an insanity defense. What Mangione's lawyer seems to be suggesting, though, sounds more akin to Twinkie Defense 2.0.
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I have mixed feelings. It may be hard to mount an insanity defense, but he's a hardcore leftist, so...
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I have mixed feelings. It may be hard to mount an insanity defense, but he's a hardcore leftist, so...
...so Mangione very definitely qualifies as N U T S
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