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Luigi Mangione's federal trial delayed until October in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 20 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

Sixth Amendment

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

So speedy only applies in certain cases I guess?

[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 hours ago

A judge on Wednesday granted Luigi Mangione only a slight delay of his federal trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, moving it from September to October instead of next year, as his lawyers had wanted.

Literally the first line of the article. Mangione's side requested the delay.

Mangione’s lawyers had argued that back-to-back trials on a compressed timeline would violate his constitutional rights.

The federal murder charges were dropped due to lack of federal jurisdiction. The state level murder charges are the highest remaining crime so that will be tried first. After the NY court rules on the murder charge, he will go to federal court to face the federal charge of stalking.

Manguonie's lawyers want more time to prepare the second case and were only granted some of the delay they asked for.

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago

I'd guess its a prosecution tactic to get a blameless mistrial and start this shit all over again when the case falls apart. They've gotten their asses handed to them just about every step of the way so far, and antijudicial momentum is running hard against all the stupid shit the Trump administration has pulled over the last year and a half. Prosecution wants to let all the hubbub die down over the next 6 months so they can try again next year when there isnt as much attention on how fucked our legal system is right now.

[–] username_1@programming.dev 10 points 5 hours ago

Why do trial with a chance of failure if they can keep him in the jail indefinitely? Sparrow in the hands...

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 1 points 3 hours ago

Unless the legislature defines what the term "speedy" actually means legally, it's kind of a useless verbiage.