since people are upset with the NYPost article…
“With today’s guilty plea, Mr. Mangione has accepted full responsibility for the death of Brian Thompson,” Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Mangione’s attorney, said during a press conference outside the courthouse.
“On the morning of Dec. 4, 2024, I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan, and he died,” Mangione told the court, according to The Associated Press.
Really, even though he’s pleading to the stalking charges, not murder? They can’t try him for that in New York?
NY prosecutors are disputing this. We certainly have not heard the last of it.
Correct. The charges are different, but they’re both for the same action, so they fall under New York’s double jeopardy law.
There’s no federal murder statute, but stalking that results in death is very similar. That’s what he plead guilty to, and it still carries up to life in prison.
But it gets rid of the state case.