Luigi Mangione’s High-Risk Legal Strategy
17 August - 24 minsIn the two years since a masked man shot and killed a health care executive, the national spotlight has turned to the primary suspect, Luigi Mangione. The overwhelming evidence has pointed to his guilt, and the question on most minds has been: What might the defense of one of the most famous murder suspects in America look like?
At a hearing on Friday, we got our first glimpse at an answer, one that appears to include a full-throated embrace of his guilt.
Today, Benjamin Weiser, a reporter covering the justice system for The New York Times, and Hurubie Meko, a criminal justice reporter for The Times, discuss the risky defense strategy and why an admission of guilt might be Mr. Mangione’s b...
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