January 30, 2026
Mangione Avoids Death Penalty
Timothy Birdnow
WTF!!!!!
If anything needs to be dismissed it's this judge, who doesn't belong on the bench.
FTA:
U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Garnett dismissed two of the four federal counts against Mangione: murder through use of a firearm, which carries a potential death sentence, and a related firearms offense.
Garnett left in place two federal stalking counts, which carry a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Mangione has pleaded not guilty.
Garnett ruled that the murder charge was technically flawed. It can be used only in tandem with a "crime of violence.” The prosecution argued that Mangione’s alleged stalking of Thompson met that standard. Garnett disagreed.
"The analysis contained in the balance of this opinion may strike the average person — and indeed many lawyers and judges — as tortured and strange, and the result may seem contrary to our intuitions about the criminal law,” Garnett wrote.
"But it represents the Court’s committed effort to faithfully apply the dictates of the Supreme Court to the charges in this case,” the federal judge added. "The law must be the Court’s only concern.
No, this judicial reasoning is not just tortured and strange, it's twisted like the Gordian Knot and absolutely insane. The judge dismissed this on a technicality and has reduced it down to two counts of STALKING when he did much more than just stalk - he gunned the poor man down like a rabid dog in a public space. If anything the prosecution was undercharging. But they couldn't have predicted they would wind up with an insane judge.
This guy shouldn't judge a pro-wrestling match.
So Luigi will be eligible to get out of prison in a best-case scenario for justice now..
Mangione may serve a considerable sentence, mostly from New York state rather than the Feds. But justice is not served; he's not just still alive but may well get out of prison in a dozen years or so. The man he killed and his family's sentence is permanent. Brian Thompson and his family deserve better.
I'll bet the salad squirter who doused Ilhan Omar with vinaigrette will get a longer sentence than this cold-blooded murderer.
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Tim, you apparently didn't read the article you published. The judge is a woman.
Yes, she shouldn't be a judge, I agree. She's probably somebody who got screwed by the healthcare insurance industry somewhere along the way. But she shouldn't let that get in the way of making a proper decision, and the one she made is really oddball.
Yes, she shouldn't be a judge, I agree. She's probably somebody who got screwed by the healthcare insurance industry somewhere along the way. But she shouldn't let that get in the way of making a proper decision, and the one she made is really oddball.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at January 30, 2026 05:21 PM (5FaDg)
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I did not catch that but then so often now women have men's namr and vice versa.
Yeah; that is a very female-style ruling (pardon to all the women who read this but there is a type of woman who is liberal and underpins all decisions with emotionalism.)
Yeah; that is a very female-style ruling (pardon to all the women who read this but there is a type of woman who is liberal and underpins all decisions with emotionalism.)
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at January 31, 2026 06:28 AM (umJ+Y)
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