Nancy Grace Explains the Legal Strategy Behind Mangione’s Reported Plan to Plead Guilty in Federal Case

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GRACE: "Have you seen the entrance to that courtroom? Because I have. It’s like a catwalk. It’s like one beautiful woman after the next going in to just get a glimpse at that. He looks like Satan to me, number one. What is that phenomenon? You know what? I have interviewed women that married convicted killers, that even moved their families across the country to marry convicted killers. I can’t figure that out. I am a JD. I am not an MD with a specialty in psychiatry. But I can tell you what’s going on in the courtroom, and I don’t like it. Nobody can stop Luigi Mangione from pleading guilty. Here’s the deal. It’s called a blind plea. You can go up to a judge at any time and say, 'I plead guilty,' and you’re throwing yourself at the mercy of the judge. The judge in this case, federal Judge Margaret Garnett, this is what the defense is banking on, that she’ll feel sorry for him and give him a break because he’s highly educated, a multi-millionaire family, had a spoon, a silver spoon in his mouth and up his — well, I’ll leave that to your imagination. He’s had every opportunity, prep school, Ivy League, the works. And what does he do, instead of getting a job like everybody else. He shacks up in Hawaii beachside high rise and plots against the health care industry. Then he comes back to the mainland and guns down a father, leaving behind a widow and little boys. Daddy’s dead because of his, Mangione’s fixation on the health care industry. Somehow he’s turned into a folk hero. I don’t get it. That said, he is going in front of a federal judge and pleading guilty, and it will totally ruin a corresponding state prosecution for murder."