Yeah he’s still got his state trials and Pennsylvania still has the death penalty. This looks like his defense wanted to try and get the state charges dismissed under the 5th amendment.
The CEO was killed in NYC, so I don’t think any serious charges could happen in Pennsylvania? I can’t tell from a quick glance at his Wikipedia article. It seems that there is a PA case against him, but I couldn’t find the charges. They focus on the NY and federal cases, which I would imagine are the more serious ones. I would expect that the charges in PA would be secondary ones like maybe possession of illegal firearms, etc. From what I can tell, only the federal case had the possibility of the death penalty.
it’s my understanding that new york specifically has laws barring parallel charges for state and federal crimes, and that normally double jeopardy doesn’t apply to parallel state and federal trials because of “dual sovereignty”. cnn reports that immediately after mangione pled guilty on the federal stalking charge, he filed to dismiss the NY case entirely on the basis of that law. sorry if this was kinda unrelated to your comment, i just figured it was the most relevant place to put it.
Pleading to stalking charges when the prosecution wanted the death penalty seems like a huge W.
Yeah he’s still got his state trials and Pennsylvania still has the death penalty. This looks like his defense wanted to try and get the state charges dismissed under the 5th amendment.
The CEO was killed in NYC, so I don’t think any serious charges could happen in Pennsylvania? I can’t tell from a quick glance at his Wikipedia article. It seems that there is a PA case against him, but I couldn’t find the charges. They focus on the NY and federal cases, which I would imagine are the more serious ones. I would expect that the charges in PA would be secondary ones like maybe possession of illegal firearms, etc. From what I can tell, only the federal case had the possibility of the death penalty.
it’s my understanding that new york specifically has laws barring parallel charges for state and federal crimes, and that normally double jeopardy doesn’t apply to parallel state and federal trials because of “dual sovereignty”. cnn reports that immediately after mangione pled guilty on the federal stalking charge, he filed to dismiss the NY case entirely on the basis of that law. sorry if this was kinda unrelated to your comment, i just figured it was the most relevant place to put it.
He didn’t commit any capital offenses in Pennsylvania though.