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.
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.