After more than a year-and-a-half of intense spectacle and legal wrangling, Luigi Mangione appeared in a federal courtroom in New York on Friday as rumours swirled that he may plead guilty. The 28-year-old, accused of shooting dead UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street in December 2024, arrived wearing a beige prison uniform
Double jeopardy is a constitutional protection that prevents an individual from being prosecuted twice for the same crime. But it considers the state government and the federal government to be separate sovereigns, allowing each to charge someone for the same criminal conduct. Also, New York state has its own double jeopardy protection that’s stronger than
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to killing a top Democratic lawmaker and her husband will be sentenced in federal court on Thursday. Vance Boelter, 59, agreed to plead guilty in June, nearly a year after the Minneapolis-area attacks, when he stalked and killed House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and