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Prosecutors highlighted “about $10,000 — $8,000 in U.S. dollars and then $2,000 in foreign currency that was found on his person,” CNN correspondent Danny Freeman said following the court hearing.
“Also they said that he had a Faraday bag,” which blocks cell signals, a move that prosecutors alleged marked “an indication of criminal sophistication and reason they should hold him on bail,” Freeman continued.
After prosecutors made the claims, Mangione said he would like to “correct two things.”
“I don’t know where any of that money came from — I’m not sure if it was planted. And also, that bag was waterproof, so I don’t know about criminal sophistication,” the suspect said in a statement that suggested police framed him.
They just want to make it look like he’s a flight risk so he is held without bail.
Nobody is going to give him bail. Murder charge.
What? People being charged with murder get bail all the time.
Here’s two examples, because I was searching for the second and misremembered his last name as “Perry” instead of “Penny”, but conveniently there was another person subjected to a murder charge who also had a bail set.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/02/us/austin-blm-protest-shooting-indictment/index.html
https://abcnews.go.com/US/daniel-penny-expected-court-chokehold-death-jordan-neely/story?id=100334248
Those aren’t charges of Murder 1.
Neither is the charge for Mangione.
https://www.amny.com/news/midtown-assassin-second-degree-murder-charges-await-mysterious-suspect-luigi-mangione-in-new-york/
The charges haven’t been brought as of yet from NY. The paperwork is not done.
What, do you think the DA doesn’t know what charges they’ll file? Or that the judge in PA is making his judgment on bail based not on stated intentions, but charges that no one has even mentioned?
Hmmmm. I’m not a lawyer, but I’d say that since Hocul hasn’t submitted the extradition paperwork yet, with its charging narrative, the NY DA is using as much time as they can. My guess would be that they are still investigating malice of forethought, which is important in a murder case.