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.
Of course that’s possible, but I don’t think a judge or an appeals court is likely to determine that the first violation of the judge’s order takes the death penalty off the table. Judges almost always bend over backwards to protect the state. If they keep talking now, that might result in some kind of mild sanctions that somehow affect reality in some slight way, possibly.
Really if the state is messing with the jury it should be an automatic mistrial. The reason is so the government learns their lesson and shuts the fuck up and stops trying to influence the jurors. If the judge doesn’t do this then of course trump will keep sticking his dick in every legal process that doesn’t go his way.
This plus the mishandling of evidence has derailed cases before. The one that comes to mind is Weather Underground. There isn’t much doubt that they blew up some monuments and were planning some more. None of them were ever prosecuted because the FBI fucked up.
I was royally confused because I thought you were talking about the website. TIL. Thanks.