Healthcare Companies Screwed Over So Many People That It’s Hard To Find Luigi Mangione A Neutral Jury
Maybe they can find a couple of cryogenically frozen folks to thaw and make a fair jury. The post Healthcare Companies Screwed Over So Many People That It’s Hard To Find Luigi Mangione A Neutral Jury appeared first on Above the Law.
You’ve heard about Luigi Mangione? Of course you have — his likeness has been all over your Twitter feed, Saturday Night Live, and those Altar Candles that were in vogue for a little while. And while that shared knowledge base might make it easy for you to throw #FreeLuigi on your dating profile to show off your politics and whimsy, it makes it damn hard to compile a neutral jury to adjudicate at trial. A recent ABA Journal article gets into the details of how to select a jury when you’re dealing with such a high-profile defendant:
“This will be a tough one,” says Don Worley, the president and managing attorney with personal injury law firm McDonald Worley in its Houston office…. “It is tough because it will be hard to find a potential juror who has not heard about this. Most will have already made up their minds about which side they are on before they arrive at the courthouse,” Worley says.
To be clear, there’s been a great deal of PR for either outcome of Mangione’s case. There’s the obvious contingent of people who have been negatively impacted by insurance companies that see Luigi as a hero: about 60% of Americans have recently reported problems with their insurance companies. But it doesn’t stop there! The fear of being screwed over by healthcare companies in the future was enough to earn Luigi a massive amount of vigilante brownie points: I have no sources but I’m willing to bet that many a shot was drank in Luigi’s honor after Blue Cross decided to mysteriously roll back their pay for your own anesthesia policy change the day after Brian Thompson was killed. People haven’t just been voicing their support, they’ve been throwing their dollars in too — Luigi recently used $300k raised by grassroots supporters to help fund his legal team. What if one of those paying supporters ends up on the jury somehow?
On the other side, you have all of obvious jury-tainting behavior from the state. You can’t start a list like this without Eric Adams. There was the conclusory address of Luigi as a terrorist that got broadcasted across the world:
New York Mayor Eric Adams on his ridiculous decision to go down to the heliport today when Luigi Mangione arrived before he was arraigned.
“I'm not going to just allow him to come into our city. I wanted to look him in the eye and stated that you carried out this terrorist act… pic.twitter.com/ntVP8U9yYX— Yashar Ali
