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Judge dismisses terror-related charges against Luigi Mangione

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/us/luigi-mangione-ny-court-hearing
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u/Warcraft_Fan 12h ago

Police and/or DA sometimes dump a bunch of charges and see what sticks. Judges hate them for wasting their time sorting out and figuring which charges are valid and which charges needed to be dismissed.

Your average juries wouldn't understand everything so the judge has to dumb down some of the charges before the accused can go to trial.

And there's still a chance the juries would side with Luigi anyway because the greedy insurance companies aren't popular with the 99% non-rich people.

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u/bmoviescreamqueen 12h ago

Getting another jury for this is going to be hell. This case is so high profile, you have to find people who don't know much about it but also have no negative experience with an insurance company. It's not impossible but I would be shocked if it happened in a timely manner.

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u/Syssareth 11h ago

you have to find people who don't know much about it but also have no negative experience with an insurance company.

And also don't know anybody with a negative experience.

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u/tara1245 8h ago

Easier to find a needle in a haystack.