Lawyers for the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson argue that their client’s constitutional rights are being violated by the government, while legal experts question Attorney General Pam Bondi’s death penalty pursuit. “I’ve been handling capital cases for over 20 years,” one tells VF, “and I’ve never seen anything like it.”
  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    121·
    6 hours ago

    I am genuinely unconvinced that they even got the right fucking guy. And the evidence chain of custody of his backpack was absolutely fucked six ways from Sunday.

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
    10·
    7 hours ago

    Unironically, a presidential pardon would be the easiest way to improve the American Healthcare system

  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
    481·
    10 hours ago

    Rush? Been 10 months since the shooting. This must be fucking torture. Dude the case against him is shit and should be dismissed. Set him free he is an innocent.

    Plus they keep depriving him his rights, and law already went public with details they shouldn’t have. I mean they have no case. Yet here it is 9 months later and still no trail.

      • Treczoks@lemmy.world
        10·
        9 hours ago

        Bad move. You can’t be a saint as long as you live - being dead is one of the prerequisites.

    • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      96·
      9 hours ago

      they have dna on the shells as well…
      dna on the bike, dna on the backpack he dropped… allegedly….
      if true, that would be pretty cut and dry… also supposedly he had the murder weapon and manifesto on him… if that’s true and ballistics and everything checks out, pretty solid case against him….
      he’s still entitled a bunch of appeals that should last years….
      if the President is directly affecting it, it should be a mistrial… no way to find a non biased jury in this country either….

      • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
        9·
        6 hours ago

        They literally have nothing on him. It’s all inadmissible, the backpack was improperly handled at the scene, meaning there it would have been trivially easy to plant evidence… It’s why we have those laws

        And where’s the DNA from the casings or the dropped bag? A conspicuous absence if you ask me, especially with them having no other evidence

      • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
        161·
        8 hours ago

        I call bullshit on the DNA on the bike and shells.

        The backpack? He didn’t do it so how the fuck did he drop it?

        I mean everything in the case has been bullshit. The entire world can see it. The rich just need to make an example out of him to show it’s pointless to resist.

        They fail to learn from history.