“While the defendant pled guilty, our office does not have a plea agreement with him,” McDonald said outside the courthouse after Mangione’s plea. “Instead, he pled open, which means he pled guilty to all pending counts in the indictment. There are no accommodations or concessions, and we are free to seek the maximum penalty under the law.”
Pleaing guilty without a plea deal or a jury trial?? He has the finances and public backing to fight this for a long time. There is something missing here.
I heard US prisons have healthcare, maybe he wants that.
I heard that if he wraps up the federal trial before the state trial, he can claim double jeopardy in the state trial. But I don’t understand how that really helps him when this presumably means he’ll be guilty of 2nd degree murder. Maybe he was worried that he would face a stronger sentence at the state level?
They threatened to kill some of his loved ones. Book it Baron
Maybe he hopes to be martyred to encourage others to follow his path.
The Luigi Method
Does this mean he has the right to appeal later when the DOJ isn’t infested with corporate interests?
The DOJ has always been infested with corporate interests and always will, because the US has always been and always will be a capitalist state. Only a revolution will change that, at which point the US will no longer exist.
