Testimony continued Tuesday on Day 8 of the evidence suppression hearing for Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year.
Featherstone testified that he has been involved in hundreds of arrests, about 30%-40% of them involving backpacks or bags, and that “every one of them resulted in a search.”
When prosecutor Zachary Kaplan asked how many of those searches involved a warrant, Featherstone said none that he recalled.
The defense has argued the officers violated Mangione’s constitutional rights against illegal search and seizure because they lacked a warrant when they searched his backpack.
“It must be legal, I do it all the time.” This is not the compelling argument they think it is. Or at least, it wouldn’t be if we actually had the rule of law.
Edit: Also the fourth amendment is protection against unreasonable searches and seizure, not unusual searches and seizure. Just because they do it all the time doesn’t make it actually reasonable.
I’m gonna laugh so fucking hard when the jury nullifies the charge. Or just fully acquits him because the cops were so goddamn stupid and thought they could get away with railroading the whole thing.
AFAIK there’s no difference between acquittal and nullification when it comes to the court record, the only way you’d know it was nullification is if jurors said in interviews afterward that that’s how it went down. If the foreman told the judge “Your honor, we’re nullifying“, that would be the biggest fumble in history.
“It must be legal, I do it all the time.” This is not the compelling argument they think it is. Or at least, it wouldn’t be if we actually had the rule of law.
Edit: Also the fourth amendment is protection against unreasonable searches and seizure, not unusual searches and seizure. Just because they do it all the time doesn’t make it actually reasonable.
I’m gonna laugh so fucking hard when the jury nullifies the charge. Or just fully acquits him because the cops were so goddamn stupid and thought they could get away with railroading the whole thing.
AFAIK there’s no difference between acquittal and nullification when it comes to the court record, the only way you’d know it was nullification is if jurors said in interviews afterward that that’s how it went down. If the foreman told the judge “Your honor, we’re nullifying“, that would be the biggest fumble in history.