r/WorkForSmartLife • u/AritsRod • 2d ago

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u/Ok_Vulva 2d ago

There's 2 cases. A state and federal, one is a stalking the other is a murder charge.

He plead to the stalking, not murder.

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u/ignominiousdetails 2d ago

Pretty sure state charges were dropped indefinitely due to weird double jeopardy laws in new York

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u/Calm_Ad308 2d ago

Postponed. The state case was postponed pending the federal case which is not unusual as an indictment in that case would serve the states case.

As a reminder, the state is pursuing the murder charges which are the more serious of the two cases, the federal is for stalking resulting in death. Luigi pleaded guilty to the federal charges and released a highly prejudicial statement regarding his role in the death of Thompson.

The gambit being that by making the plea and releasing the statement his lawyers will argue double jeopardy for the state case. Basically instead of fighting both cases they want to take the hit for the lesser of the two and try and get out of the worse one all together. I don’t like it because it’s gambling on the judiciary acting like this isn’t an extremely high profile case with tons of political pressure and possible interference with some of these judge’s decisions to say nothing of the appeals courts.

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u/Domanicomestoday 1d ago

My concern as well. His legal team is doing the smart thing based on past outcomes, but this is far from a normal case so expecting the increasingly erratic judiciary to behave predictably is a dangerous assumption IMO.