142
Luigi Mangione pleads guilty in federal court
(www.npr.org)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2026
142 points (100.0% liked)
World News
57561 readers
711 users here now
A community for discussing events around the World
Rules:
-
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
- Post news articles only
- Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
- Title must match the article headline
- Not United States Internal News
- Recent (Past 30 Days)
- Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
-
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
-
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed.
-
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
-
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF OCTOBER 19 2025
-
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
-
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
-
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
Lemmy World Partners
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
Ask Historians !askhistorians@lemmy.world
Recommendations
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
- Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Wow, I was expecting this to go to trial and be more drawn out.
The feds only had stalking charges. Murder is a separate state case, but it'll be hard to beat that 'I knew what I was doing. I shot him." statement. Maybe angling for favorable sentencing.
Definitely taking "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime" to heart, though. Hero of the people.
It was presumably his lawyer's strategy. He pleaded guilty to the federal stalking case and then the lawyers moved to dismiss the state murder charges for double jeopardy. They're trying to say he shouldn't be charged for the same crime twice and picked the lesser of the two.
We're talking about the justice system here not some game show.
Are you joking right now?
Double jeopardy is a legal defense that stops the government from trying or punishing a person twice for the same crime.
It's a real thing.
The Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, emphasis mine:
Double jeopardy is a legal concept that means a person can’t be tried for the same crime twice. Leading up to the revolution, there was an issue with British authorities charging colonists with trumped up charges just to harass them. And when they’d beat the charges, the authorities would just charge them with the same crime again, starting the entire process all over again. So they specifically listed a “no double jeopardy” clause in the constitution, because they had seen how a prosecutor could abuse the legal system to keep an innocent person perpetually locked up.
However, double jeopardy doesn’t typically protect someone across state and federal crimes. Courts have repeatedly upheld that you can be tried in both, because the two courts are entirely separate. So it’s interesting that they’re trying to use the double jeopardy argument to say that the state can’t charge him.
In case you weren’t making a joke: Double jeopardy
SatansMaggotyCumFart is almost always making a joke. Every once in a while he says something not joking or trolling, and it's wierd.
Weird is one of those strange words where the i is after the e.
It’s easy to remember “weird’s weird,” though.
See, this is exactly what I'm talking about.
Or blaming the Left for Kamala Harris being an awful candidate that didn't earn enough votes to beat the most unqualified, unpopular, and corrupt pile of radioactive waste to ever seek the office.
He REALLY loves beating that particular dead horse on any post about the Mango Mussolini doing something particularly heinous.
They are setting up for a defense based on mental health, non compos mentis .
I'm sure there was a plea deal. Either that or they found out the prosecution had some really damning evidence.
They had a ton of evidence.
So, pleading guilty he doesnt go infront jury? Weird to give all this up now, not showing remorse even.
Taking a lighter sentence or gambling on the death penalty? I wouldn't call that weird at all.
Yeah, no jury at all. State charges are still pending, so we'll see if those continue. Seems unlikely to have a state trial if he's already plead guilty to federal charges.
I dunno though, I'm not a lawyer.
Sometimes they'll wait for them to be released from one prison just to arrest and prosecute other charges. Given the state and federal split I would be unsurprised if that happens here.
because idiots on lemmy were telling you he was innocent?
Because the police bungled the handling of evidence harder than the ones who arrested OJ.