Just so this guy’s case won’t be split up through seventeen threads, here’s one of his very own.
Luigi Mangione seeks to dismiss Pennsylvania charges over ‘illegal’ arrest
The Altoona Police Department “lacked reasonable suspicion” to arrest and detain Mangione at that time, the attorney said.
Before the McDonald’s employee made the 911 call that led to Mangione’s arrest, the police had “no paperwork, photograph, warrant, communication, or other information in its possession corroborating the speculation that Defendant was in fact the person being sought in New York,” the filing says.
They also lacked “probable cause” to conduct a Terry frisk, since it was done despite “no factual basis to form a reasonable belief” that Mangione may be armed and dangerous.
Police officers blocked him from leaving the fast food restaurant; he didn’t know that he was free to go, the lawyer argued.
The “unlawful detention” spanned about 20 minutes while police tried to identify Mangione as the suspect wanted in New York. Although officers also sent a photo of the defendant to agents at the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office and FBI.
“No official identification of the Defendant, as being the suspect from New York, was ever made by any law enforcement personnel from the State of New York; the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office, or the FBI,” Dickey argued. The purported identification as the wanted person in New York was “speculative and based on a hunch.”
Mangione was also not given any information as to why he was being held, the filing says.
Is the bar exam easier in PA? 
