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Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker (www.bbc.com)
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[โ€“] TheFogan@programming.dev 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fortunately in criminal trials if the Jury can return a not guilty verdict, that's game over for the states case. Double jeopardy they can't retry.

Now if one guy on the Jury opposes a guilty verdict, and no verdict is reached, then the state can retry.

[โ€“] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

They could also go after him with Thompson's family in civil suit to destroy him financially, which it turns out is not double jeopardy