Luigi Mangione has watched surveillance movies of the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson at a courtroom look.
Mangione has pleaded not responsible to state and federal homicide costs over the killing of Mr Thompson. The state costs carry the potential for life in jail, whereas federal prosecutors are searching for the demise penalty.
The 27-year-old’s attorneys are searching for to bar proof, together with a 9mm handgun and a pocket book through which prosecutors say he described his intent to “wack” a medical insurance govt, from his New York state trial.
Each have been allegedly present in a backpack Mangione had with him when he was arrested.
Mr Thompson, 50, was shot lifeless on 4 December final 12 months as he walked to a New York Metropolis resort for his firm’s annual investor convention, sparking a five-day manhunt.
Mangione was arrested after a McDonald’s worker in Pennsylvania alerted authorities to a buyer who seemed just like the suspect within the killing.
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Luigi Mangione was proven a video of the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Pic: AP
Mangione, carrying a white shirt with a crimson checked sample underneath a gray swimsuit, watched with out emotion as prosecutors performed surveillance movies displaying Mr Thompson’s killing on a Manhattan pavement, in addition to his personal arrest, at a courtroom look in New York on Monday.
The movies, together with footage from the McDonald’s restaurant in Pennsylvania the place he was arrested, kicked off a listening to on Mangione’s battle to bar proof from his trial, together with the gun prosecutors say matches the one used within the early-hours assault.
After getting state terrorism costs thrown out in September, Mangione’s attorneys are specializing in what they argue was unconstitutional police conduct threatening his proper to a good trial.
They’re searching for to dam prosecutors from utilizing proof allegedly found in his backpack throughout his arrest, and statements he made to police, arguing that he was illegally searched and questioned.
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Luigi Mangione seems in courtroom for an proof listening to on 1 December 2025, in New York. Pic: AP
Eliminating the gun and pocket book can be big wins for Mangione’s defence, and a significant setback for prosecutors, depriving them of a attainable homicide weapon and proof they are saying factors to motive.
Mangione additionally faces seven counts of prison possession of a weapon, and one rely of possessing a false identification.
Choose Gregory Carro dismissed two terrorism counts towards Mangione in September.
He discovered that prosecutors had not introduced sufficient proof that Mangione meant to intimidate medical insurance staff or affect authorities coverage.
Trial dates haven’t been set in both the state or federal circumstances.
Mangione has been held in federal custody in Brooklyn since his arrest.
