Outed for what???
They’re entitled to their opinion. This is America.
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They are entitled to their opinion. I never said they weren’t. So are Nazis apparently. It doesn’t mean I have to like, or respect their opinions.
They have masks on for a reason. I hope that reason comes to fruition. Just my opinion…
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Excellent article! Thanks for linking it.
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A future doctoral dissertation on criminal pathology, mass hysteria, the banality of evil, or how social media has destroyed whatever once existed of behavioral norms. Or all of the above.
He’s a hero because he chose to shed his anonymity as “just another rich guy” and kill someone? And for what? His deluded followers think this is some brave pivot point in our society? No. Just another psychotic break with tragic consequences.
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So did the perp walk violate Mangione’s constitutional rights?
Let’s see if Eric Adams’ giant ego manages to screw up this case… (emphasis mine). Apparently Mangione’s lawyer won’t hesitate to bring up the charges against the mayor.
“What was the New York City mayor doing at this press conference – that is utterly political,” she said, before referencing the mayor’s own criminal case. "The New York City mayor should know more than anyone the presumption of innocence."
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That is a fascinating article, very thoughtful.
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Well paid high profile lawyers dedicated to their clients have the time to bring up all possible legal theories in favor of their clients in hopes that some of them will influence the case.
Probably most people here can think of other high profile defendants with well paid legal teams who got off with less than what they may have gotten if they had to rely on the overworked public defender.
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Which suggests the question of how/if Mangione is paying his high profile lawyer…
Did he earn enough money, or inherit enough money prior to being estranged from his family? Could his lawyer have taken the case pro bono?
Or is someone not related to him paying for the lawyer?
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His family could be paying but not want to show up in court. Stranger things happen all the time. I’m sure she’s not doing the case as a charity one.
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He may have gone no contact with his parents, but they were looking for him. And the parents aren’t mildly wealthy, they are very wealthy.
There is no chance his lawyer is pro bono. Her husband is P. Diddy’s lawyer (she’s Of Counsel at the same firm). She does not need the experience or publicity to take cases pro bono.
The big question on the YouTube law podcasts is why was she dressed the same as Luigi? They both had white shirts under maroon sweaters. Strange. Not like they both had on white shirts and blue suits, but this very strange maroon sweater outfit.
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After the $40,000 a year high school and whatever Penn was, I don’t think the parents are the people to let their son use a pro bono attorney. Estranged or not.
They were looking for him.
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His attorney is practicing in the same law firm that got Michael Cohen out of jail because he was being wrongfully held because he wouldn’t sign a paper that he wouldn’t disclose all that happened to him. That female attorney and Karen and one other are together in a podcast called Misstrial.
Attire choices are very deliberate. I’m sure the defendant and attorney conferred about it and made a conscious choice.
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The attorney properly brought to the court’s attention the spectacle that is being created around this case and how this can taint the jury pool and how it needs to be stopped asap.
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Maroon, apparently, is the color of the season. (Along with ochre?)
But yes. The fashion choices are deliberate and the attorney matching her client was interesting. As if to say, “look, he’s one of us”. Or maybe, “there’s not such a difference between me and him”.
But this was just a hearing in front of a judge, who doesn’t care if the defendant is a regular guy who just happened to murder someone or dangerous. I don’t think the judge was confused that the lawyer was the lawyer and the defendant was the one with 4 guards surrounding him, no matter how they were dressed. I can understand this game when there is a jury, but not for an arraignment. (I’ve been the female at the defense table and told to ‘engage’ with the defendant so the jury could see how ‘normal’ he was, to whisper to him, to pat him on the back. No thank you.)
And the lawyer halted the ‘team dress code’ when it came to the shoes. The lawyer had on regular shoes while the defendant had orange jail slippers on.
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It would not surprise me if those orange slip-ons he was wearing become a “fashion” item 
Replied in the political thread because of the potentially political aspects of the content:
There is an Ivy League Murders podcast? They’re going to get a lot of mileage out of the silver spoon assassin.
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