Wouldn’t surprise me. We’ll see how this plays out.
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Late Monday night, New York prosecutors charged Mangione with one count of second-degree murder [...]
This is actually funny, because from everything we've heard, it was definitely very premeditated; wonder why they didn't go with first-degree murder...
First degree is very hard to prove, and losing a case because you went for first over second degree murder would be embarrassing for any prosecutor.
Based on the footage already made public, I don't see how there could be any doubt about it being 100% premeditated... unless they aren't sure they got the right guy.
He tripped multiple times in short succession while cleaning his gun. Could happen to anyone.
Yeah, and I mean, he had a manifesto, and wrote a targeted message on his shell casings... this clearly wasn't spur of the moment.
The definition that legally applies for 1st degree murder is a lot more strict than people usually think.
Here's a partial summary:
A more complete summary of the law is given in this video around 8:49.
Be funny if it turned out they couldn’t actually track the shooter down, so they just picked a random person to pin it on to make it seem like people would inevitably get caught if they did a copy cat crime.
'might'