Mark Bederow: Mangione’s New York Murder Case ‘Is on Life Support’ After Federal Guilty Plea

RUSH EXCERPT:
BEDEROW: “I think the murder case is on life support. New York has very double jeopardy statutory laws that are much more protective of defendants than the us constitution. And they have protections in place which say you can‘t try him even from a different sovereignty if there are already was a prosecution. And in this case, the argument is that he pled guilty to possessing a firearm and using it with the intent to kill Thompson, which he admitted doing, and which is clearly the murder charge in New York. And the defense is going to argue, and I think very credibly, so that it‘s the same. It‘s the same incident, it‘s the same criminal transaction that they‘re trying to charge him for."