NEW YORK (AP) – Luigi Mangione is scheduled for court on Tuesday as his lawyer pushes to abolish his state’s murder charges with murder Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthCare. They argue that federal death penalty prosecution along with the New York case represents double risk.
Also determined: the date of trial and whether a state or federal lawsuit goes first.
That was Mangion’s first court appearance in a state case since February. The 27-year-old Ivy League alumni was captivated Cult Following as a substitute Frustration with the health insurance industry. Dozens of his supporters It appeared At his final hearing, many wear the green color of Luigi’s video game character as a symbol of solidarity. His April arrest in the federal incident caused a similar pour.
If Judge Gregory Caro allows the state’s case to move forward, Mangion’s lawyers say they hope to dismiss the terrorist charges and the attorney’s prosecutors to use evidence collected during Mangion’s arrest last December. 9mm pistol And a notebook where authorities say he explained his intention to “move” the insurance executive.
The prosecutors want the judge to have Mangion’s lawyers state whether they will pursue a crazy defense or introduce psychiatric evidence of mental illness or defects.
Karo will control these requests on Tuesday and may schedule additional hearings or issue written decisions at a later date.
Mangione admits that he has not committed any crimes on multiple numbers of murders. Murder as a terrorist actHe was murdered on December 4th, 2024. Surveillance video showed a masked gunman shot Thompson from behind when he arrived for an investor meeting in Hilton Midtown, New York. Police say “delay”, “denial” and “retirement” were scribbled with ammunition and mimicked phrases commonly used to explain How insurance companies can avoid paying claims.
Mangion was arrested five days after he ate breakfast at McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 230 miles west of New York City, and whipped into Manhattan by plane and helicopter. Since then, he has been held in the same Brooklyn federal prison where Sean “Diddy” Comb is trapped.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office argues that there is no double risk issue as none of the Mangion cases have been tried and therefore state and federal prosecutors have different legal theories.
Mangion’s lawyers say the duel cases created a “legal quagmire” that “makes it impossible to defend them legally and logistically at the same time.”
The state’s biggest life-or-life accusations in prison claim Mangion “wanted to blackmail or force civilians,” meaning he wanted insurance employees and investors. The federal complaint alleges that Mangion stole Thompson and does not involve any horror claims.
Attorney General Pam Bondy announced in April that he had ordered federal prosecutors to seek death penalty for “political violence” and “deliberate, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.”
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has extensively cited Manhattan’s handwritten diary in a court application seeking to uphold his state murder charge. They highlighted his desire to kill the insurance Hongcho and his admiration for Ted Kaczynsky, the late terrorist known as Unabomber.
In his book, the prosecutor meditated on Mangion’s rebellion against the “fatal and greedy health insurance cartel,” and said killing industry executives “telling the greedy asshole that came.” They also cited a confession that he wrote “to the federal government,” where he wrote “it had to be done.”
Mangion’s “intentions were evident from his actions, but his writings help to make those intents explicit,” the prosecutor said in his June application. The books they sometimes described as a manifesto “convey a clear message that the murder of Brian Thompson was intended to revolutionize the healthcare industry.”
