Multiple Department of Justice employees "may have violated" Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial through public comments and social media posts, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday -- and it could end up swaying the judge to grant a defense motion to take the death penalty off the table.
Here is my argument. He only looks similar. They “found” a gun when searching the backpack way later out of eyewitnesses. Why would he have a manifest and such with him in an entirely different state after leaving a crime scene. But I’m also just a layman and could be wrong.
Or he’s the guy, but they had no (legal) way to tie him to it and therefore planted the evidence.
Has he made any sort of public statement about it?
Well, humans can act weird, especially under heavy stress. You usually don’t just kill someone for the very first time and shrug it off. However, I do actually not know when and where they found the evidence. If the manifest was handwritten, then it is quite easy to find out if he wrote it.
The usual stress action in these sort of cases is to dump evidence immediately. In fact, the actual hero kind of did that by leaving a backpack in the nearby park.