"Fresh from a legal victory that eliminated terrorism charges in Mangione's state murder case, his lawyers are now fighting to have his federal case dismissed, seizing on US attorney general Pam Bondi's declaration prior to his April indictment that capital punishment is warranted for a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America. Bondi's statements and other official actions including a highly choreographed perp walk that saw Mangione led up a Manhattan pier"
"Mangione's defense team, led by former Manhattan prosecutor Karen Friedman Agnifilo, implored US district judge Margaret Garnett, an appointee of former president Joe Biden, to correct the errors made by the government and prevent this case from proceeding as a death penalty prosecution. Bondi announced in April that she was directing Manhattan federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Mangione."
Mangione's lawyers asked a judge to bar federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty, asserting that government actions prejudiced the case. They point to Pam Bondi's public declaration that capital punishment was warranted before the April indictment, and to a highly choreographed perp walk that presented the arrest as a spectacle. The defense alleges the Trump administration flouted established death-penalty procedures, violating constitutional and statutory rights and tainting the grand jury process. The legal team seeks dismissal of the federal death-penalty prosecution and corrective action by Judge Margaret Garnett.
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