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.
I think he is saying that if the people who applied for and recieved the warrant didn’t know that the bag had been sesrched and such, then the judge is likely to decide it would have happened anyway. But that does still leave the question of if they would have arrested him without having seen what was in the bag.
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.”