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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 16m

Lone Wolf: Luigi Mangione Asks SDNY to Dismiss Counts 3 and 4 on Killing UnitedHealth CEO, Seeking to Suppress - Inner City Press story: innercitypress.com/sdny17mangio... 13 page Friedman Agnifilo declaration: www.patreon.com/posts/mangio...

Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 44m

Luigi Mangione docket - his defense is arguing to suppress using a series of images from his arrest at McDonalds in Altoona, PA. These were just filed in the Federal / SDNY case - tracking the NYS case (much) more difficult. But Inner City Press is on the case(s)

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 58m

Luigi Mangione docket: nearly 1 am, Mangione's lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo files a motion to dismiss Counts 3 and 4 and to suppress, with Altoona PD exhibits - Inner City Press is on the case, story coming

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 10h

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 10h

ADA: The night that you were placed under arrest, you made extensive statements to the police, didn't you
Defense lawyer: Objection!
Judge: Let's have a sidebar

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 10h

ADA: You would have this jury believe that the weapon Rocco Rodden had what his size?
Bordone: Yes.
ADA: Thank you. After you stabbed him twice, you were able to run away?
Bordone: I was
ADA: Then you slashed again...

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 10h

Bordone: Sometimes I wish I had be beaten. I see this family in front of me and I see so many similarities
ADA: But you didn't run away, you pulled out your knife
Bordone: Yes.
ADA: You escalated the violence
Bordone: The more I tried to get away the more I was in

Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 10h

ADA: But you were the one with the weapon
Bordone: He had his feet, he had his hands. I thought they would come and stomp me and kill me.
ADA: Isn't it true you pulled out your knife to stop people from coming toward you?
Bordone: I saw everyone who just stomped

Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 10h

ADA: You could have run away, right?
Bordone: True. But I knew I couldn't run much longer.
ADA: You were tired?
Bordone: I was starting to see black.
ADA: But you pulled out your knife and you threatened Rocco Rodden
Bordone: I begged him to stop.

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 10h

ADA: Your sneakers came off, didn't they?
Bordone: They did.
ADA: Were they high-toppers?
Bordone: No. People were stepping on my feet and holding my jacket.
ADA: Then Rocco Rodden approached you?
Bordone: Yes.
ADA: And you pulled your knife out?
Bordone: No

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 11h

ADA: You weren't scared when you punched Rocco Rodden, were you?
Bordone: I was terrified. I felt like if I got two more of those I'd be out. It was like thunder.
ADA: But it missed your head, right?
Bordone: He might have missed a little of it

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 11h

ADA: When were you hit, and where?
Bordone: Shortly before this.
ADA: Not captured on video, right?
Bordone: No, it was. It was shown here in court, it's a blurry video [There is a longer video]
ADA: Rocco Rodden raised his hand up, right?
Bordone: Don't remember

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 11h

ADA: You didn't see Rocco Rodden do anything, did you?
Bordone: I saw a group-
ADA: I'm not asking about groups
Defense counsel: Your Honor-
Judge Ward: What did you see Rocco Rodden do?
Bordone: There was a group stomping.
ADA: Demonstrate
Bondone stands & stomps

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 11h

ADA: Rocco Rodden hadn't done anything to you, right?
Bordone: He was in a group that was stomping my friend. I saw Jonathan being held down...
ADA: You didn't see Rocco Rodden do anything, did you? He was actually pulling people off, right?
Bordone: No.

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 11h

ADA: What was he doing with the bottle?
Bordone: I just saw that he had it.
ADA: Here, you're getting ready to throw a punch at the person you now know to have been Rocco Rodden?
Bordone: Yes. People were coming in to back up a person they knew

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 11h

ADA: Let me show you a video
[Inner City Press has published one, above]
ADA: Frame by frame. Where is the person with the bottle?
Bordone: I just remember seeing him.
ADA: Let's go forward. Any bottle yet?
Bordone: Black pants, white and blue shirt

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 11h

Jury entering!
Judge Ward: You may proceed with cross examination. Mr. Bordone, you are still under oath.
ADA: When did you see the person with a bottle in his hand? Where was he?
Bordone: In the group
ADA: Where?
Bordone: There was so much kicking

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 11h

[Bordone has on a suit jacket but no tie, white handkerchief in left pocket. Now waiting for the jurors to be brought in. Sounds of sirens waft up to the 15th floor from Baxter Street, or maybe Centre]

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 11h

[Waiting for the judge, defendant Gianluca Bordone is sitting stone-faced in the front row of the gallery, his defense lawyer already at the table.]
All rise!
Judge Ward: Mr. Bordone, you may make the stand.
[He does]

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 11h

OK - back in NYS trial of Gianluca Bordone for the death of Rocco Rodden - Inner CIty Press has been covering the case innercitypress.com/nyscourt36wa... and will live tweet with defendant on the stand, thread below

Trial for Deadly Stabbing Outside Ax Throwing Bar Has Coroner Describing Heart Sac GashInner City Press: Investigative Reporting from the United Nations

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 12h

Judge: See you Oct 16 for closings.
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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 12h

Judge: I reject the plaintiffs' arguments. There will be only a general verdict form. One line for damages.
BNP's lawyer: We believe this jury instruction amounts to a directed verdict for the plaintiffs. May we file?
Judge: You want to write, write.

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 13h

Plaintiffs' lawyer: Given the witnesses, I think the jury should be given a definition of what a refugee is
Judge: I'm not allowing it. You're making a sympathy argument.
Plaintiffs' lawyer: At closing, may we-
Judge: I decline to do it. Is that clear?
Yes.

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 14h

BNP's lawyer: I object to the reference to the janjaweed.
Judge: The term was used during the trial. I'll stay with it.
BNP's lawyer: We object to including political speech, free speech type rights aren't cognizable under Swiss law.
Judge: I'm leaving it in.

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 14h

Judge: If the Government of Sudan was enabled to commit human rights violations against the group of which the plaintiffs belong-
BNP lawyer: We object to the human rights language. It has to be illicit acts, under Swiss law

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