“Even if this motion is successful, it doesn’t mean that Luigi Mangione walks out of prison,” said Ron Kuby, a criminal defense attorney whose practice focuses on civil rights. “All it means is that the items that were seized from him, or seized that belong to him, can’t be used as evidence against him.”
Kuby thinks that Mangione’s team has made enough claims in their papers to merit a hearing on the issues, in which the police officer involved would have to testify, confirming or denying the facts. “It does appear that they stopped and frisked Mangione without a legal basis to do it. If that’s true, everything that follows from there is likely to be found to be unconstitutional,” he said.
None of this was reported, even your understanding was never confirmed and all blame about who called it in was pure speculation.
Yet you suggest there was enough to know how bad contained cash and he was on a bus from New York
Yes, I suggest there was probable cause, welcome to the start of the conversation.
But you said there was probably cause, and then brought up a bunch of stuff there’s no reason to assume the cops ‘knew’ before arresting him.