Counts 3 and 4 are firearm charges that bootstrap on Counts 1 (interstate travel stalking) and 2 (cyberstalking), but they can only apply if Counts 1 and 2 are necessarily "crimes of violence."
Fed. judge finds that travel stalking and cyberstalking are not do not necessarily involve violence.
Wow:
Federal judge strikes down Counts 3 and 4 of the federal indictment against Luigi Mangione, which means Attorney General Pam Bondi's political ploy to turn the murder of Brian Thompson into a federal capital case has failed big time.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
(Yes, I simplified. You try explaining the categorical and mod. cat. approaches to normies, much less everything SCOTUS has done to the crime of violence analysis.)
