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[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago

Mysterious car crash/ heart attack/ fent OD/ fall from a window.

But it won't be too mysterious.

[–] Novamdomum@fedia.io 16 points 18 hours ago

He'll be released and probably be offered all sorts of book, talk show, movie deals. He certainly won't do anything criminal. That would would be cuckoo bonkers. CEO's of unpopular companies will increase their security and certainly not ever just wander around on their own outside in the street. He will be the subject of all sorts of controversial arguments which will be used to market him. Or... he'll go into some kind of anonymous relocation program and live a quiet life out of the public eye. Either way it's going to be one of the most interesting moments to watch in recent history.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 15 points 21 hours ago

Disappeared by ICE.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 23 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

he'll be swept up by ice for existing, spend 3 weeks in a Totally-Not-Concentration-Camp™ before being deported via airdrop to somewhere in the middle of the Sahara, to far from towns and travel routes to get help before dying of exposure.

While the Bought-And-Paid-For media spin it as a win for americans by dealing with a "Terrorist" that the "Woke Justice System" let go for woke wokeness reasons.

[–] arcine@jlai.lu 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I really hope he kills a second one of those fuckers, then.

[–] Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not convinced he killed the first. The pictures they showed as evidence looked like completely different people, his backpack was lighter than his clothes in one, then darker than his clothes in another.

Then they "caught him" at a restaurant with a backpack full of all the most convenient evidence days later.

Weird. If I did that I sure wouldn't be hanging out in restaurants DAYS later still toting around all the evidence just for the luls.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 points 12 hours ago

For his sake, I really hope he did do it. I mean, being imprisoned as he is would suck regardless, but it would suck extra hard if he didn't do it

Nothing, he's an innocent man after all.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 19 points 1 day ago

They'll arrest the jury.

I mean, yeah, they're not allowed to do that, but since when has that stopped this regime?

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 79 points 1 day ago (3 children)

He'll be found guilty in a civil lawsuit and then much later gets attested in Vegas while trying to get back some of his memorabilia at gunpoint. For which he will be getting an unusually high sentence. All the while he will write books claiming he will find the guy who really did it.

[–] hogmomma@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (4 children)
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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“How I Did It” would be a good title.

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[–] Muffi@programming.dev 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The American government is doing their best to make him and his story disappear from the media. The same tactic will simply intensify. Killing him with the classic 'prison suicide' will only make him a martyr, so they will silence him and make him as invisible as possible.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

So you’re saying they’ll Epstein him?

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Back of the head suicide, style? Lone wolf/mentally ill/fall guy? Or straight up, unambiguous, assination?

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Before he's set for release, they'll put him in a cell with someone already serving a life sentence. Another jailhouse killing.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would watch a sitcom about Luigi, and the series starts off with him being found not guilty. So they lock him in with a guy doing life. Their idea is to release him in 40 days. They think the life sentence guy will kill him. They assumed thats what would happen.

Instead he and his cell mate become lifelong friends, and the style of the show changes from gritty and dramatic, to being shot like an 80s NBC sitcom, with a studio audience.

Except it takes place in a comedy version of a jail. And it starts and ends every episode the same way. They wake up in their cell, and they go to sleep in their cell.

Cue the freezeframe, roll credits, as a studio audience gives forced applause that kind of drags, and you can tell some guy is waving his arms like "CLAP LOUDER!!!" and they're all just thinking "how long do we have to clap???"

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Hi Im from Netflix and we want to make your show. We already have John Mullany committed. Only thing is we need to some how make it live and David Chang will being cooking the whole time.

[–] nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago

that last sentence is doin me 'ead in m8

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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I don't see any avenue where he is found not guilty to be honest, but in that theoretical case, I think that there's going to be a lot of older folk that absolutely lose their mind about the principle of the matter.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s straight Jury Nullification within an hour of deliberation unless there are people on the jury who have been bought, by monetary means or otherwise.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not guilty seems very unlikely based on the publicly available evidence. I could see a hung jury happening though, as there are a minority of people who strongly want him to go free.

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cops seem to be OJing it, getting plenty of publicly available evidence tossed because they fucked up processing it

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Ah well I haven't followed all those details. Prosecutorial incompetence is always a possibility.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The most loud evidence since the arrest was the backpack with the gun and the manifesto. Except it was known pretty soon that the cops botched the ‘chain of custody’ for the backpack, as some officer had the backpack in her sole possession for an hour before delivering it to the station.

I keep being baffled as to why I don't see any news about this evidence being thrown away. Maybe it was dismissed from the trial right away, idk.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

You're saying the backpack was ruled inadmissible? If so that is certainly a big deal, maybe bigger than possible jury nullification.

However again, I have not been following all the twists and turns so I don't know what other evidence may have been uncovered since the arrest.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The thing is, I haven't heard that the backpack was thrown out of the evidence, which is what confuses me. But I'm only following the case via Lemmy and Reddit.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

The courts usually give an obscene amount of deference to the police. In a high profile case like this it's possible they'll be slightly more by the book... but usually they wrote the book to allow police to "reasonably" violate our constitutional rights, so that only goes so far.

But yeah unless they ruled it inadmissible, the lapse in custody probably won't matter. The average juror is hopelessly naive and thinks cops are just pure-hearted goody two-shoes who would never do anything wrong.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

if what slurpy says is true, it should be. doesn't mean it will, the supreme court has ruled the police get a certain amount of whoopsies when it comes to your constitutional rights and you get zero

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 points 16 hours ago

Yeah that's my concern. The courts and the police are besties and they usually have each other's backs unless something happens that's so blatantly criminal that they can't find a way to excuse it. Imperfect custody of evidence doesn't sound that way to me, but I'm no expert.

The good news for Luigi is his case has a lot of public scrutiny, which can force the courts to behave a bit better in some cases.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s the idea of jury nullification: guilty, but we don’t care.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 points 21 hours ago

Right, and I think we are seeing increasing cases of jury nullification, especially for civil disobedience against ICE. However, the reality is that Lemmy is a bubble. Luigi and his alleged murder are nowhere near as popular among the greater population as he is here. So that's why I think the chance of a hung jury is higher than nullification. Hung jury can happen if there is just one or a few people who refuse to convict. But jury nullification requires unanimity. There's bound to be at least a few law & order boomer types on the jury. But only time will tell.

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 9 points 1 day ago

A massive party.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 16 points 1 day ago

I think the billionaire class will have an assassin ready to go. We’re not supposed to fight back. If he can be an example of punishment via the legal system, great. If not, well, they’ll pay to make that example of punishment so.

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