since people are upset with the NYPost article…
“With today’s guilty plea, Mr. Mangione has accepted full responsibility for the death of Brian Thompson,” Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Mangione’s attorney, said during a press conference outside the courthouse.
“On the morning of Dec. 4, 2024, I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan, and he died,” Mangione told the court, according to The Associated Press.
Except that the prosecutor’s office has stated that no plea deal exists, and they’re still free to pursue the maximum sentence. That’s what makes the whole thing so confusing.
There’s basically no legitimate reason for him to plead guilty at this point, except for “I’m tired of this, just get it over with.” Pleading guilty only hurts his case, and doesn’t help him at all.
The prosecution isn’t in charge of the sentence though. He is still more likely to get a shorter sentence by confessing and pleading guilty.
so what if the reason is money. what if they are paying him/his family to just make this go away. what if someone offered him $100 million to just say he did it in order to keep us from continuing to talk about him as hero, st luigi, etc…