So NY State's murder law is odd.
What most states would call first degree murder, NYS calls second degree. In NY, second degree murder is intentional murder. In other states, second degree murder might be heat-of-passion crimes.
In NY, first degree murder -- which used to make you eligible for the death penalty, before the basket-case shithole state abolished that -- requires special circumstances, like killing a cop, judge, or political official. Other states would call this "aggravated first degree murder" or death-penalty-eligible murder.
Now that NY State has no death penalty, the worst penalty it can inflict for premeditated murder is 25 years to life without the possibility of parole.
Now that the left's latest Hot Terrorist is only eligible for second degree murder, he can be sentenced to 25 years to life -- but with the possibility of parole, which means that even if he's convicted, he could be out in, what?, eight years?
And he will be paroled, because the pro-terrorism, pro-assassination left is literally masturbating themselves to this latest left-wing killer.
Now what I didn't mention is that one of the special circumstances, apart from the victim being a cop or judge, that can get you a first-degree murder charge is if your murder was part of a terrorist action or was motivated by a desire to terrorize.
Obviously that's what Luigi Mangione intended. Terrorism is the use of violence to advance a political cause. We known Mangione intended to use violence to advance his political cause because he wrote "Delay, deny, depose" on his bullet casings -- note that he inspired Charlie Kirk's assassin -- and those words are associated with the left-wing critique of insurance providers. The left is angry that insurance companies don't pay for some procedures.
So he had been charged with terrorism, which then permits a first-degree murder charge.
But a left-wing judge tossed the terrorism charge.
He claims that the left's Heartthrob murderer didn't have a terrorist motive.
No, the left-wing, pro-terror judge reasons, he only wanted to kill the UnitedHealthCare CEO to... bring a political issue to the public's attention.
Which is just another way to say "terrorism," but while denying it's terrorism.
A judge has thrown out the top counts in Luigi Mangione's state murder case -- rejecting claims that the accused killer can be charged as a terrorist -- in a huge blow to prosecutors.
In a ruling released Tuesday, Judge Gregory Carro tossed charges of murder in the first degree as an act of terrorism and murder in the second degree as a crime of terrorism against the 27-year-old Ivy League grad.
The judge did keep alive Mangione's other second-degree murder charge for allegedly executing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in cold blood outside the health care company's investor conference on Dec. 4, 2024.
"The People presented sufficient evidence that the defendant murdered Brian Thompson in a premeditated and calculated execution. That does not mean, however, that the defendant did so with terroristic intent," Carro wrote in his decision.
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was "wildly overcharging" Mangione in an attempt to make a "great headline," veteran defense attorney Ron Kuby said at the time.
In New York state, murder in the first degree is typically charged in the rare cases involving victims who are law enforcement members, possible witnesses to crimes, firefighters or medical personnel. It can also use it in alleged terrorism cases.
It is absolutely bizarre to cite Ron Kuby as an "expert" here, given that he is a radical left-wing lawyer who opposes virtually all criminal penalties and is the former partner of more-famous left-wing radical lawyer Kunstler.
William Moses Kunstler (July 7, 1919 -- September 4, 1995) was an American attorney and civil rights activist, known for defending the Chicago Seven.[1] Kunstler was an active member of the National Lawyers Guild, a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the co-founder of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the "leading gathering place for radical lawyers in the country."[2]
Kunstler's defense of the Chicago Seven from 1969 to 1970 led The New York Times to label him "the country's most controversial and, perhaps, its best-known lawyer".[2] Kunstler is also well known for defending members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, Catonsville Nine, Black Panther Party, Weather Underground Organization, the Attica Prison rioters, Meir Kahane assassin El Sayyid Nosair, and the American Indian Movement.[2] He also won a de facto segregation case regarding the District of Columbia's public schools and "disinterred, singlehandedly" the concept of federal criminal removal jurisdiction in the 1960s.[2] Kunstler refused to defend right-wing groups, such as the Minutemen, on the grounds that "I only defend those whose goals I share. I'm not a lawyer for hire. I only defend those I love."[2]
Kuby is his disciple:
While in college, Kuby interned with William Kunstler, a senior lawyer with 20 years' experience, notable for many of his sensational cases including the defense of the Chicago Seven. From 1983 until Kunstler's death in 1995, Kuby worked as an unofficial partner in Kunstler's law firm, with both men taking up "the fight for the poor, the oppressed and the downtrodden". The two men declared they were not only colleagues, but best friends as well.[11][12]
Kunstler and Kuby never formalized a partnership with a contract or tax filings. Despite a letterhead that read "Kunstler and Kuby", Kuby was paid as an employee and never shared in the firm's profits and losses.
Fun trivia, I once had cause to visit the Kunstler and Kuby law offices. They were a stinky pit that resembled the basement of a low-achieving pot-addicted fraternity.
Why would the Post cite this man as an "expert" in this case?
So now in NY, left-wing communist assassins now have a hunting license to murder CEOs and other despised capitalists.
There has already been talk of some major corporations moving out of NYC due to the the fact the city is becoming communist Cambodia. We just had another murder at a corporate office a couple of months ago, as a man walked in and began shooting up NFL employees because he couldn't get in to kill the BlackRock employees he was hunting.
Will major corporations finally flee NY for Florida?
Will Wall Street flee?
NY is profligate spending state and can only survive due to the world's wealthiest corporations being based there, and all paying corporate taxes themselves and, even more importantly, locating all of their high-paid employees and executives there, who also pay the exorbitant NY tax rates and thereby keep the shithole city nearly solvent.
What happens when they all leave?
We may see. We may see.
Meanwhile: left-wing murder-groupies celebrate Luigi Mangione's reprieve.
Note this is exactly the lie we saw with Muslims claiming that Osama bin Ladin was innocent -- Israel did it, doncha know -- while also hailing him a hero for his terrorism.
Which is it? Is he innocent or is he a hero who did the thing you find praiseworthy? It can't be both.
The nihilistic feral sub-humans known as "left-wing murder groupies" all think he's so hot and dreamy:
Question:
Why doesn't the right "calm the waters" and stop inciting the left to murder us?