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I'm not a judge and this isn't a court of law. People assume guilt or innocence for themselves all the time. Obviously if I were a judge or on a jury I'd want a lot more evidence. Hell, if I were on a jury, I'd be pushing for jury nullification. I don't see anything wrong with that CEO getting got.
Tainted evidence, media portrayal, dirty cops, this is all standard for the criminal justice system. That's how loads of cases work, and we don't all jump to immediately assume the state is framing every single person they accuse of anything.
My question is, if Luigi really is just some person completely unrelated to the crime who is being framed for it, why is there no pushback from him, his lawyers, or people who know him? If there were reason to believe he was being framed, with as much public support as he has, I'd assume we'd have an alibi showing where he was at the time of the shooting, or people talking about how they don't believe he could have done it.
Everyone personally or directly connected to Luigi himself are acting exactly as I would expect them to act if he had actually done it.
I ultimately don't really care whether or not Luigi personally was the guy who did it or not. Regardless, it wouldn't change my opinion of Luigi or the murder. I'm just trying to find out if there's something I haven't heard about. Some reason or alibi or explanation to believe he's being framed beyond "we like what he is accused of doing and he seems like a pretty good guy."
He plead not guilty. So until the government proves otherwise we must assume that some other really cool person killed that guy.
I mean, we (the public, not the justice system) treat people who plead not guilty as if they did it all the time. How many times have we seen videos of police violence, for example, and known the guy did it regardless of what the court says?
I'm not talking about whether he should be criminally convicted. Even if he had filmed the entire thing and that was in the public, I'd still be pushing for jury nullification. That's not my purpose here.
I'm solely trying to answer this one question:
Why do so many people seem so certain Luigi is being framed by the state when nobody connected to the defense in the case is acting like it is or have said that it is?
Because the alternative is to assume he's guilty despite no evidence being provided?
So instead we assume he's being framed despite no evidence being provided?
And, to be clear, there has been evidence provided that he did it. It's very questionable evidence from an even more questionable source, but it's not no evidence.
Compared to no evidence or even a claim from Luigi or his lawyers that he's being framed.