Luigi Mangione Wants Trial Livestreamed as Former Prosecutor Warns it’s to Pressure Jurors
“Luigi Mangione’s push to livestream his murder trial isn’t about transparency, it’s a stunt designed to pressure jurors, a former federal prosecutor is arguing.”
Luigi Mangione’s defense team is making some unusual demands that at least one former prosecutor is saying could be used to pressure jurors.
Mangione wants his trial to be livestreamed, and his defense team also wants a list of the journalists covering the trial. Why would they want these things? Perhaps so that Mangione’s legion of deranged and loyal fans can go after anyone they see as a threat to a not guilty verdict.
FOX News reports:
Luigi Mangione’s livestream stunt aims to get influencers to ‘pressure’ jurors: former prosecutor
Luigi Mangione’s push to livestream his murder trial isn’t about transparency, it’s a stunt designed to pressure jurors, a former federal prosecutor is arguing.
Lawyers for the accused UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin argued in a Friday filing that the media access rules for his state trial are unconstitutional, and said the proceedings should be livestreamed.
Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Mangione’s attorney, said that her team wasn’t consulted on media access for the upcoming September trial, and only became aware of a document titled “Media Access: PSNY v. Mangione” from an independent journalist on X.
Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, told Fox News Digital he believes Mangione’s attorneys want all trial proceedings to be livestreamed to pressure jurors, noting it’s unusual for defendants to want more publicity.
“The conventional wisdom is that the defense usually doesn’t want high-profile cases broadcast. It can put implicit pressure on jurors to return a guilty verdict,” Rahmani said. “Mangione is probably the most popular accused murderer that I’ve ever covered in the past 25 years. Has a fan base. There’s upwards of 10 to 20 percent of the people who have been surveyed who believe that even if he did it, it was justified. And I think the defense knows this, and they know that more attention creates the possibility of jury nullification, or maybe even an acquittal.”
Watch the video report below:
‼️LIST OF BRAZEN DEMANDS BY LUIGI MANGIONE
-Be given a list of the journalists covering the trial
-An explanation for the criteria of those selections
-An explanation for the efforts that are being made to secure overflow space
-Have the trial be broadcast LIVE (NY generally… pic.twitter.com/dHCkeIgpWY— Outnumbered (@OutnumberedFNC) August 4, 2026
Mangione’s fans want him to get a walk. They’re already pushing for jury nullification.
The New York Post reports:
Luigi Mangione’s radical supporters are leading the charge pushing for a rarely-used legal loophole that could let the suspected healthcare CEO killer walk free — even if the jury believes he is guilty beyond reasonable doubt of the cold-blooded murder.
The December 4 Legal Committee, which has raised more than $1.5 million for Mangione’s defense fund, is raising awareness about jury nullification, a legal power by which a defiant jury can find a defendant not guilty if they believe the law the accused is charged with breaking is unjust, The Times reported.
While rare since the 19th century, it’s used when a jury wants to “send a message about some social issue that is larger than the case itself, or because the result dictated by law is contrary to the jury’s sense of justice, morality, or fairness,” according to the Cornell Legal Information Institute.
Jamie Peck, one of two spokespeople for the December 4 Legal Committee, described jury nullification to The Times as “a beautiful feature of our justice system and really one of the only safeguards against tyranny that we have.”
These people don’t care if he committed cold-blooded murder.
They think it was justified.
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Don’t think these folks are all that common. The best he can hope for is a hung jury.
I hope for a hung Mangione. We can’t always get what we want.
Hanged.
There are a bunch of “Manson’s Girls” types that hope is is hung and want to find out.
Perhaps they will livestream his execution.
Beat me to it. Let them livestream both.
He will be executed after the usual 30 year weight. That cop killer that NPR gave a weekly program slot two, as far as I know, it’s still living.
New York doesn’t have capital punishment. And the federal capital charges were dismissed. So in neither trial is execution on the table.
As for Daniel Faulkner’s murderer, he was resentenced in 2011 to life without parole, and moved into the general prison population. As best as I recall that was the end of his celebrity.
It’s insane but I think he will get a hung jury
Then, it’s open season in America
Only to the extent terrorists are allowed to dictate jury verdicts.
And do you really think Democrats would allow non-Leftists to have any influence on ‘their’ juries in ‘their’ courts run by ‘their’ judges in ‘their’ cities against enemies of the Left?
The potential dividing line between Woke jihadists and Conservative Americans may be further hardening – not law, but whatever your side will and can dictate.
Meh, put the trial on live stream and the CT controls the camera keeping the lens away from the jury. Either we believe trials should be open and public or we don’t. That doesn’t mean the defense, the prosecutor, the spectators in the room get to turn it into a circus.
The moment someone steps out line in the courtroom have 3 or 4 great big ‘ol Bailiffs snatch them up, cuff them and bounce them down the hallway like a racquet ball on their way to the stairs where they gonna unfortunately slip and fall repeatedly before being pepper sprayed and tased into compliance for transport to County Jail. Hire some former D1 defensive linemen and swear them in to serve as ‘special Bailiffs for the trial. Only requirements are hate in their heart and a willing eagerness to do violence as the CT directs to those who want to create a circus.
Ummm, that would be a circus, alright. A Roman circus.
I’m not saying you’re wrong to suggest it. Just that would actually be a literal circus. Heh.
Nah, the cameras would cut feed/recording during the removal. A short pause inside the courtroom until the sounds of the disruptive goofs held in contempt being bounced down the hallway faded.
They streamed Rittenhouse’s trial and that worked find. As long as you don’t get a judge like Lance Ito in the OJ trial it will probably be fine. Ito seemed to fall down the Fauci “I’m famous and people love me” vortex and allowed a lot of crap in his court room because of that.
Exactly. The addition of a CT controlled camera feed doesn’t alter the process …unless the Judge is too weak to control the courtroom. At the first inkling of antics then hammer the offenders with contempt fines and jail time followed by being barred from that courthouse for 90 days. If it causes a mistrial then fine them the entire costs associated with the trail, not.just court cost but exhibits, depositions, testimony, testing, expert rebuttal witnesses, salaries of everyone involved all the way to a proportional share of the light bill. Do that and I suspect there’s enough negative incentive to deter shenanigans …if still doesn’t deter then bounce them right on out in a vigorous, overly enthusiastic manner all the way to the jail.
The problem here is not antics, it’s that the jurors’ identity will be open to the whole public, which will lead to some people taking it on themselves to harass them or their families, and try to influence their votes. And once that happens it will be too late to do anything about it.
The same potential exists in every trial. Is there a higher likelihood in this particular case? Yes but concerns re harassment/influence would also apply to Judges, members of Congress. No fair arguing here to prevent the same sort of behavior/acts deployed v SCOTUS.
If the CT controls the camera then I don’t see the issue. By keeping the camera off the jury the concerns are mitigated and are no greater than if the courtroom disallowed a video feed. If whackos want send someone into the courtroom to ID the members of the jury for purposes of harassment/influence then we’d need a closed courtroom/non public trail held on secluded area on a military base with everyone (not just the jury) sequestered.
Anybody ever heard of the word “no….”? Tell these America-hating commies to jump in a lake.
If we want to see psycho morons on the internet, we can go to Tiktok. We don’t Luigi and his band of communist idiots glorified by the court system.
Well, he does know his supporters. Quite obviously they will make anyone’s life a living hell if they can figure out the right people to harass
Luigi is a theater-kid. Drama is important to him.
Jury nullification Is not a legal loophole.
It’s a built-in way for the people to not let the state railroad someone.
Of course, it’s also a great way to have the people let a “hero” off the hook for actually committing a crime or 100.
“Lawyers for the accused UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin argued in a Friday filing that the media access rules for his state trial are unconstitutional, and said the proceedings should be livestreamed.”
Yeah, how did I miss the part in the constitution about a right to livestream?
More seriously: Gee, they haven’t been declared unconstitutional, and that’s outside the scope of this trial. Feel free to initiate another lawsuit on that issue, which will be heard by another judge at another time. But I intend to hear this one right now.
Of course they want to intimidate and bully the jurors. It’s the leftist way. It’s interesting that Luigi and his fans target private citizens for their ire instead of the politicians who write and sign the laws they believe are so unfair.
Easier to kill private citizens than it is to kill politicians, ask Luigi.
They will intimidate and bully the jurors regardless of livestream or not.
Can a judge declare a mistrial if, despite clear evidence of Mangione’s guilt, perhaps even a confession, extremists intimidate the jury and a not guilty verdict is returned?
Is vigilante justice the only ‘justice’ left available to the victims of his crime?
No. Once the verdict’s in it’s too late for a mistrial. Also, he would need actual evidence of intimidation; he can’t use the fact that they returned an obviously wrong verdict as evidence of it. Otherwise every instance of jury nullification could be overturned.
I would agree; as long as his execution can be live also.
First, it’s to keep his supporters entertained because he wants his fan club intact when he gets off; next, it’s to influence/intimidate the jurors because jurors are human and can make mistakes.
Mangione is the “feelings” generation hero. Don’t like someone, and feel like killing him, just do it. It’s happening more and more. Pay attention.
I’m holding out for some “jail house justice”. This turd needs flushing.
The intent is to dox the jurors. Either the cameraman will make a “mistake” and show the jury, or someone will wear Meta glasses into the courtroom and get pictures of the jurors. Even if the judge manages to ensure that the jurors don’t get pictured, the mere threat that you as a juror might be identified by these people will be enough to limit the pool of fair-minded people. All it will take is one person on the jury who will never vote for a conviction and he walks. Maybe the prosecution gets a retrial; maybe they get a change of venue.
How is it that Mangioni has not hung himself yet?
He was never a threat to the Clintons.