Prosecutors said Friday that Luigi Mangioneās death penalty case in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson should carry on unimpeded, urging a judge to reject a defense push to dismiss charges and rule out capital punishment over Attorney General Pam Bondiās public statements suggesting Mangione deserves execution.
The U.S. attorneyās office in Manhattan also asked U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett to deny the defenseās bid to suppress certain evidence collected during the arrest last year, including a 9 mm handgun, a notebook in which authorities say Mangione described his intent to āwackā an insurance executive and statements he made to police.
āPretrial publicity, even when intense, is not itself a constitutional defect,ā prosecutors wrote in a 121-page court filing, citing prior rulings from the Supreme Court and the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
As for the evidence, which Mangioneās lawyers contend was collected without a warrant and without him being read his rights, prosecutors said police officers were justified in searching the suspectās backpack to make sure there were no dangerous items. His statements to officers, they said, were made voluntarily and before he was taken into police custody.
Rather than dismissing the case outright or barring the government from seeking the death penalty, prosecutors argued, the defenseās concerns can best be alleviated by carefully questioning prospective jurors about their knowledge of the case and ensuring Mangioneās rights are respected at trial.
Iām sorry, but the choice of āwackā is the least believable piece of evidence that the police have claimed.
Youāre telling me that a 26 year old with a political agenda used a misspelled 90s/2000s quasi-mobster-coded slang word in his manifesto to describe killing someone instead of all of the words that donāt have that connotation?
Sure, Jan. Itās definitely not a 45 year old NYC cop with a chip on their shoulder
Seriously, who reads these 121 Page Court filings?
I realize they are like triple spaced and thick margin but for fucks sake
Based on having seen quite a lot of lawyer-themed dramedies, Iām going to guess interns. Though I imagine LLMs are getting used lately.
Iām sure LLMās do come into play at a certain point. Butā¦ The legal Document software in industry is hugeā¦
Obviously neither you or I would have any need for it. But there is software that will scour court rulings and documents and transcriptions and etc. and generate Templated documents that require only a small amount of editing.
For example, I am currently suing a major corporation for permanently damaging my spine due to Employee Incompetence. Part of this means that I deal with insurance companies. We are at the discovery period, So I get a list of extremely dry questions that seem to repeat themselves in various different ways. I canāt help but thinking that all of this is generated somehow based on Successful situations in the past
Read it? Imagine writing it.
Actually, I think a lot of these documents are generated by software. I donāt mean artificial intelligence or anything I just mean that legal documents are assembled using in different software applications. You basically check bunches of boxes and it provides a template for you and you type a few lines describing the situation and it fills the whole thing out for you.
I say this as I went through a legal Discovery document where everything was very clearly a generated document. It was probably 50 pages
I used to have to as part of my job as an insurance adjuster for litigated claims. We had to respond to specifics in the court filings for our coverage decisions. It suuuuucked at first, but itās mostly a boilerplate repetitive structure, so itās not that big a deal once you get used to it, itās easy to skim.
