
Marie Pohl is a published author and freelance contributor. She covers courts…
In a new statement, the disgraced producer complained about his case remaining unresolved as he approaches ‘a lonely Christmas’ at forbidding Rikers Island.

The weeks-long ‘suppression hearings’ have finally wrapped and Mr. Mangione has returned to jail for the winter.

The unusually drawn out hearings over the evidence seized at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s have stretched over two weeks.

The multi-day hearings continue during which Mangione’s defense is seeking to show local Pennsylvania police were Keystone Cops who conducted an unlawful search.

The prosecution plans to call 26 witnesses in their effort to head off a judge tossing crucial evidence gathered when Mangione was arrested by a passel of local, Altoona, Pennsylvania law enforcement officers.

The focus of the suppression hearings is to examine if the evidence obtained during Mangione’s arrest was seized lawfully.


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