Man pleads guilty to assassinating a top Minnesota Democrat and her husband

[Ocelot II]

1. Once the feds are done with him, Minnesota gets him.

The federal charge (interstate stalking) has been found not to carry the death penalty in the Luigi Mangione case, so the feds didn't pursue it - it wasn't because he shot a Democrat. And that's fine with me; I oppose the death penalty in all cases, even this one. But once the sentencing process is over, the state gets him on the murder charges, since murder isn't a federal crime except in a few limited cases (e.g., murder of a federal official). There could be a plea deal at some point as in Derek Chauvin's case, where he was allowed to serve his prison time in a federal prison instead of a state prison on the murder charge. But he was a cop, and could make a credible argument that he wouldn't be safe in a state prison, but Boelter doesn't have that going for him. I'll be interested to see what happens next. He will probably plead guilty anyhow.