Donna Rotunno: Mangione ‘Ran to Federal Court’ to Try to Block State Murder Trial

RUSH EXCERPT:

ROTUNNO: “So the strategy is we ran the federal court, right? Let’s run to federal court. Let’s get a plea because the state double jeopardy laws say you cannot be tried for the same course of events on the state side. So the play was run to federal court before the trial that was set September 8th in the state system and say, now we have pled guilty and now the state should be precluded. Originally, the state case was going to go first, and then he would have been stuck with whatever happened there. And then the federal case was going to happen. But now, since he ran to federal court”