A judge had demanded an explanation for why Justice Department officials were publicly expressing views on Luigi Mangione’s guilt in the killing of a health insurance executive.

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Brian Scott Lorenz’s conviction in the strangling of Deborah Meindl in a Buffalo suburb was set aside in 2023. A jury failed to reach a verdict in his retrial.

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There’s a way out of this, and people in despair are leading the way.

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