Luigi Mangione’s Attorney is not messing around calls out NYC Mayor Eric Adams for trying to influence the jury pool with prejudiced statements and says his client is being treated like a spectacle whose right to a fair trial is being violated.

Eric Adams may cause a mistrial by cloud chasing

  • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    “The mayor should know more than anyone about the presumption of innocence,” she said of Adams, a former NYPD captain who is now accused of federal corruption charges.

    che-smile Throw that shade, sis!

    • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      And the double entendre that he was a cop makes it even better. If she’s called on it, she just meant that as law enforcement, he knows that people he arrests get a trial (if they don’t confess, that is).