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Common Dreams Staff Dec 10, 2024
[contains transcript (corroborated by NBC) published by Ken Klippenstein]
I mean, if he doesn’t say it’s his manifesto, we need to be skeptical. Since he is claiming he is not guilty right now, we have to assume this is something weird.
Nobody pleads guilty to murder. There’s no reason to without a really good plea bargain which is very unlikely.
The PA may want a deal for a quick trial. The publicity of a long and drawn out trial won’t look good for all the rich, corrupt, assholes in power. They’ll want it to be over quickly and get Luigi shoved out of the lime light. Also, especially without a plea there is a very real chance that one of the jurors could vote “not guilty”, which would shine a huge spotlight on the fact that jurors can simply vote “not guilty” if they support whatever a defendant has done and they’d get off completely free, which again, the rich and powerful would dreadfully hate.
So I could see a lot of reasons that a prosecutor would strike a very good plea bargain with Luigi. The risk of an acquittal or long trial that could fuel copycat killings or a huge power shift in the US seems pretty realistic.
Ted Kaczynski did
He didn’t exactly have money for a lawyer.
Actually he did.
My mistake. I thought he chose to represent himself.
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I think most people plea guilty to murder if they are guilty.
You can think whatever you want. That’s not true though
I’m sure you have statistics to back up your opinion.
No, most rational people plead not guilty and are so advised by their lawyers unless they specifically have a good deal lined up.
Disagree. Most rational people who are charged with murder (and who did it) take the prosecution’s deal.
However, if none of us are presenting peer reviewed statistics, we are all just making assumptions.
https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2023/02/plea-bargain-task-force/
I wouldn’t take a “not guilty” plea as evidence of much.
Pleading “not guilty” is the only way to get in front of a jury, which is probably the best chance he has at this point — both in terms of staying out of jail and in terms of boosting his message.
A trial will inevitably become a media circus, and a media circus is great if your goal is bringing attention to your particular ideology.
Hopefully it’s televised like the O.J. Simpson trial
And then he gets off scot free because the prosecutor keeps calling him Mario.
No lawyer should/would let you plead guilty in a case like this. You have to plead not guilty first, then create a defense.
Well, they would if the prosecution offered a deal. Which I’m sure they did not
It does not look like the same person, it is super fishy.
Those brows don’t lie. But I am definitely open to evidence that he was not it. This should be a very fascinating trial