Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been postponed indefinitely.
  • lad@programming.devEnglish
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    17 days ago

    State gets one shot at proving you guilty, you get multiple to prove you’re innocent.

    To be fair, this sounds better than it works, as your appeal may take a lot of time to actually free you, even after the appeal is successful

    • vrek@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      17 days ago

      100% true but I was trying to explain the idea of double jeopardy then he brought up appeals so briefly tried to explain how that works