Crime Thread

Quote: odiousgambit

you can kill somebody and then say, "oh hell, I was emotional at the time, not my fault" ...... ??

"Mangione’s lawyers will argue that he was in the throes of an “extreme emotional disturbance” when he gunned down Thompson in December 2024."

https://nypost.com/2026/06/17/us-news/luigi-mangione-will-argue-a-psychiatric-defense-in-state-trial-for-united-healthcare-ceo-murder/ .

Pretty sure no matter what the plea, he's counting on a hung jury.

Unless the prosecutors bungle things really badly, I doubt he gets the "OJ" verdict.

Quote: odiousgambit

you can kill somebody and then say, "oh hell, I was emotional at the time, not my fault" ...... ??

"Mangione’s lawyers will argue that he was in the throes of an “extreme emotional disturbance” when he gunned down Thompson in December 2024."

https://nypost.com/2026/06/17/us-news/luigi-mangione-will-argue-a-psychiatric-defense-in-state-trial-for-united-healthcare-ceo-murder/ .

Don't you think this is a weak laughable defense
No doubt the jury will see right through this
Let's be real. The defense doesn't have much to work with

Emotional and not my fault would be something like walking into a room and seeing your young child being sexually assaulted and you just lose it on the perpetrator in the moment

Quote: terapined1

Don't you think this is a weak laughable defense
No doubt the jury will see right through this
Let's be real. The defense doesn't have much to work with

Emotional and not my fault would be something like walking into a room and seeing your young child being sexually assaulted and you just lose it on the perpetrator in the moment

Or like coming home and finding your wife in the sack with the pool boy.

Too bad attorney Texas "Race Horse" Haynes can't represent this killer...he got a guilty man off in Texas: he admitted his client killed the deceased but successfully argued to the jury that "The son of a bitch needed killing," which was NOT a part of a self defense argument.

couldn't find Clint Eastwood image saying this, must get censored as too violent

so I made my own, it's from 'Unforgiven'

had some issues, see next post