Day 2 of the Luigi Mangione NYC pre-trial hearings are underway.
A raft of dirty cops are giving statements but before the legal details I hear the most newsworthy part of today's updates will likely be the release of more photos of Luigi at trail.
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The key witness today is Detective Joseph Detwiler, a dirty local cop.
So of course at the time Luigi didn't know this was a dirty cop. But this was a dirty cop whose probably fucked up the whole case.
Det Detwiler is the officer who demanded Luigi's ID (the first part of the illegal stop+search) and reviewed it, allegedly bc he was in McD's too long.
This initial stop was a pretext and during such police interactions its actually legal to use a fake name and possibly even ID in Pa.
The Transcript between Luigi Mangione and the Altoona officer after Luigi handed over a fake ID.
-"You're under official police investigation again. If you give a false name again, you will be arrested for false ID."
-Mangione nods on screen. Mangione has arms crossed.
-"Is your name Mark Rosario?"
"No sir."
-"what's your real name?"
-"Um, Luigi. Mangione"
-"Why’d you lie about your name."
"Uh, I clearly shouldn't have," said Mangione, eyebrows up.
"But why'd you lie?" -Frye
-"That was the ID I had in my wallet and it was a fake ID." -Mangione
-Patrolman Fox read him his Miranda warnings. "Do you want to talk to us?"
-Mangione shakes his head no
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@nullagent Court sketch artist working OVERTIME to produce an unflattering portrait of our man. Lord knows that took *effort*