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I’m pretty sure he did it, but the way this whole thing was handled has been atrocious and incredibly stupid.
At this point yes, they’ve fucked his whole right to a fair trial beyond repair.
I'm legitimately unconvinced that they got the right guy. There are issues with all of the evidence against him, and I fully believe that the federal government would, in the absence of an actual suspect, frame the first convenient loner. Like there's probably a list of "questionable" individuals in a file at the FBI that they can pull up when they need a scapegoat. "How about this Luigi guy? He's in the general vicinity, and he doesn't have an alibi. Grab the gun and one of those manifestos from the pile, we gotta go pick him up."
It's also possible he's guilty, but the prosecution still has to follow the rule of law. If he cannot get a fair trial, he must go free. That's the only way we can be certain that the government won't throw us in prison without a fair trial.
I’ve read his online last blog entry and that’s what convinced me.
I think they caught him using illegal means, and I think they fabricated evidence. The political pressure to catch him was insane and none of the evidence makes any sense.
If he was as smart as I assume he is they probably couldn’t get parallel construction of evidence to add up, so they had to go further. Or they couldn’t disclose the illegal methods used to find and track him.
The McDonald’s employee noticing him from the masked photos also is bizarre.
Ultimately the government needs to prove he did it, and the blog post alone is circumstantial.
It's ridiculous that you would run with some document leaked to a freelance journalist to the degree you overlook feds have provided zero evidence this guy was even in the state at the time of the murder. The handling of this trial has been disgusting, on the side of the public as well as the prosecution. It's downright shameful.