One year after the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the court is now weighing whether police violated alleged gunman Luigi Mangione’s Miranda rights.
One year after the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the court is now weighing whether police violated alleged gunman Luigi Mangione’s Miranda rights.
The legal doctrine at play here is “inevitable discovery”. If the state would have “inevitably” found the evidence through legal means, then they can use the evidence anyway, even if the original search was illegal.
The point of the theatrics with getting the warrant after the fact is to try to show the judge that that alternative process was “inevitable.”