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Not saying that's impossible. Certainly a ghost gun has an advantage to corrupt government agents just as it does to criminals.

But it's going to be difficult to make it stick against a patsy.

What will be very suspicious is if he dies in custody before trial. Otherwise, at trial, I expect:

* He has no alibi

* The ballistic evidence matches the gun.

* He has possession of additional ammunition from the same lot.

* He was in fact a client of UHC with a substantial claim denial history

* His computers/phone show that he was cyber-stalking

If they have all that, I don't think a reasonable person could believe that the FBI crime lab and Google can be coerced in a grand conspiracy into fabricating evidence.

If it turns out that the gun is a "2nd ghost gun", and the prosecution claims that he ditched the 1st gun and the ammo, and his alibi is "weak", and he cleared his digital history, that would be a much weaker more suspicious case.




> he was in fact a client of UHC with a substantial claim denial history

It doesn't appear he was [1].

[1] https://apnews.com/article/luigi-mangione-united-healthcare-...




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