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Sure, but it's gonna be a real stupid attempt if they take it to trial with such shaky evidence, all it takes is a single juror going "lol no way do I trust that evidence" and the jury is hung, a few jurors on his side and he could likely be found not guilty and that would be the end of that, no retrial, he walks a free man.
A hung jury is not an automatic dismissal. The judge can allow a retrial and in this case they absolutely will. Over and over again, until they get the result they want.
Im aware. Which is why I added, "a few jurors on his side and he could be found not guilty". It was two possibile outcomes listed, not just one.
Double Jeopardy
I assume that jury selection on this particular trial was almost certainly tampered with to pick the least sympathetic to accused to out right bribed or blackmailed into being told how they will decide the case or else.
Brian Thompson was murdered, but all the evidence that has been made publicly available certainly suggest that Mangione had nothing to do with it. The images release of the shooting and the hotel do not match, purportedly the hotel images were 2 weeks old at the time, we've gotten no other proof that he was even in the city on the day of the shooting, as well as the backpack found in central park abandoned, yet supposedly 3 days later the suspect had the fake IDs, weapon and manifest on his person while out to lunch?
I'm sorry but no, this entire thing reads like they just want to crucify Luigi because they fucked up their investigation so bad they're never going to catch the real culprit and his name must have been on a watch list or something to make him a convenient scapegoat.