Personally: no & yes. For the latter, a legitimate court of law ought to laugh at this case. But that’s not what he is facing.

The subject came up in conversation, so I figured I would take the temperature here.

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    some sort of tracking of him was done that the feds don’t want people to know about

    That “tracking” is all the work they did to find a suitable fake perp. If they had any real evidence and Luigi did do it, it would’ve been admitted almost immediately. They have very little to lose.

    it was something that may be ruled unconstitutional and risk the case against him

    And besides, if that were true and Luigi truly did it, don’t you think the current SCOTUS would use this great stroke of luck as a way of undoing some “dangerous” precedent?

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      And besides, if that were true and Luigi truly did it, don’t you think the current SCOTUS would use this great stroke of luck as a way of undoing some “dangerous” precedent?

      If the feds did anything blatantly unconstitutional, then that would be used by the defense to convince the jury he should be acquitted. If he is found not guilty by a jury, it wouldn’t go into appeals or to the supreme court because double jeopardy.

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      the circumstances of his arrest were indeed kinda weird, but the luigi was framed argument doesn’t make much sense to me. they would certainly choose someone more leftist to blame, right?

      and with all the cameras and tracking and stuff going on right now, i can’t see someone just easily vanishing from the authorities somewhere like ny.

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        If your patsy is too good it becomes more suspicious. If they did frame him I am imagine they did their geo fencing and found people who were alone visiting nyc in that time frame and then left and of the people they looked at he was the easiest to frame