“Even if this motion is successful, it doesn’t mean that Luigi Mangione walks out of prison,” said Ron Kuby, a criminal defense attorney whose practice focuses on civil rights. “All it means is that the items that were seized from him, or seized that belong to him, can’t be used as evidence against him.”
Kuby thinks that Mangione’s team has made enough claims in their papers to merit a hearing on the issues, in which the police officer involved would have to testify, confirming or denying the facts. “It does appear that they stopped and frisked Mangione without a legal basis to do it. If that’s true, everything that follows from there is likely to be found to be unconstitutional,” he said.
That’s kind of how locating a suspect works… How else do you locate someone from a description when they have fled and are hiding in the general population?
Don’t rush. Don’t plaster the news with him after 72 hours. Let him think he got away and allow him to make another mistake.
So “don’t look for the suspect”? That seems like, super effective.
Stop snitching. Yeah, don’t look for the suspect outside of law enforcement private channels. Involving the public almost always ends in a “we did it Reddit” moment, which when the dust settles, and we find out the truth, did we realize that the mob picked a convenient target, and we effectively killed a person for no reason.
Law enforcement will find the perpetrator in the long run about 50% of the time. That’s all the deterrence that actually matters. Criminals don’t care about the sentence when they are commiting a crime.