(DCNF)—Noted attorney Alan Dershowitz raised questions Monday about one detail in the arrest of a suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson.
On Monday, police in Altoona, Pa. arrested Luigi Mangione, a person of interest in the fatal Dec. 4 shooting of Thompson, following an extensive manhunt. Dershowitz, a former Harvard law school professor, said that police may have violated Mangione’s rights in their search after the arrest, potentially endangering a conviction for the killing.
“I’m a little nervous about one aspect of the arrest. According to newspaper reports… when they arrested him, they found in his possession a series of documents relating to insurance companies. I don’t think that was based on a constitutional search,” Dershowitz said. “Get mad at me, but I believe in the Constitution. Look, I want this guy to be convicted if he did it, and obviously, it seems 99.999999% certain that he did it, notwithstanding the presumption of innocence, but I insist every I be dotted, every T be crossed when it comes to the Constitution.”
“Now the rules are this: When you arrest somebody, you can conduct a search that is consistent with the arrest and you can make sure you he has no guns, you can make sure he has no knives, no weapons, nothing like that, no means of escape, that’s all legitimate,” Dershowitz added. “But if you find in his pocket, you know a series of documents, there are cases, it’s not clear, that suggest before you read the documents, let’s assume… they were enclosed in an envelope, or they weren’t, there was more than one page, before you go inside the document, you may very well need a search warrant.”
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits unreasonable search and seizure. Failure to obtain a search warrant outside certain exceptions can result in a judge excluding evidence obtained in the search, according to Findlaw.
“It would have been easily obtainable, and you know, maybe no harm no foul, but the police should have obtained a search warrant,” Dershowitz said. “Maybe they did… But particularly when you have a case that’s so obvious and so apparent, police should do everything in their power to avoid giving the defense any arguments at all, the same thing happened in the O.J. Simpson case, they so clearly climbed over the fence, made up a story that that they were there to protect him.”
“I don’t want to see anything endangering a potential conviction in this case,” Dershowitz said later.
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When Dersh starts talking about all the J6ers civil rights being violated every single day for the last four years, I’ll start caring what he says again about the U.S. Constitution.
Terrorists in Gitmo were treated better than these Americans, many of whom are veterans, grandparents, ministers and family people with ZERO offenses on their records, and all they did was walk into the People’s House. Timing was bad, but Dershowitz should be helping THEM.
He has spoken about it. Speaking about it every day hardly makes someone not credible. You don’t seem to be an intelligent person
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” ― Booker T. Washington
This blm dude saw how much money the female blm chick was able to steal and buy homes, etc and by golly, he wants his! Hoping for another George Floyd “moment”.
Aside from the clear fact you lack intellect intelligence and common sense perhaps you should read the stories before going on your ignorant racist diatribe which actually is what proves you have the IQ of a houseplant. Your comment aside from showing how profoundly ignorant you are actually demonstrates your reading comprehension challenges. Perhaps you should stick with pop up books they are probably better suited to your limited intellectual capacity.
He is really grasping at straws on that one.
Doug, so, you think arresting someone entitles you to go thru everything they have? 👌
You don’t understand basic human rights or the US Constitution, apparently.
With all of your smug, vacuous insults, denigrating other people’s intelligence levels, you sure don’t provide evidence that you aren’t simply projecting.
Doug, he may have made a mistake posting here, but how is the obviously and ubiquitously factual quote by TLC even remotely racist, you feckless, condescending douche?
White people aren’t out to get black people; they are just exhausted with them. They are exhausted by the social pathologies, the violence, the endless complaints, the blind racial solidarity, the bottomless pit of grievances, the excuses, the reflexive animosity and the endless race baiting and race grifting.
Perhaps Douggie doesn’t know that Booker T. Washington IS BLACK. He made the truthful statement over 100 yrs ago. We’ve seen it time and time again since then.