Luigi Mangione watched stoically in court docket as prosecutors performed surveillance movies exhibiting the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a New York City sidewalk final 12 months and Mangione’s arrest 5 days later at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania.
The movies, together with footage from the restaurant beforehand unseen by the press or the general public, kicked off a Monday listening to in Mangione’s combat to bar proof from his state homicide trial, together with the gun prosecutors say matches the one used within the December 4, 2024, assault. Thompson was killed as he walked to a Manhattan lodge for his firm’s annual investor convention.
Luigi Mangione, centre, seems in court docket for an proof listening to, on Monday in New York.Credit: AP
Mangione, 27, pressed a finger to his lips and a thumb to his chin as he watched footage of two cops approaching him as he ate breakfast on the McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 370 kilometres west of Manhattan.
He gripped a pen in his proper hand, making a fist at occasions, as prosecutors performed a 911 name from a McDonald’s supervisor relaying issues from clients that Mangione regarded just like the suspect in Thompson’s killing.
Among the proof Mangione’s defence staff needs to be excluded are the 9mm handgun and a pocket book – the so-called manifesto – during which prosecutors say he described his intent to “wack” a medical health insurance govt. Both have been present in a backpack Mangione had with him when he was arrested.
Mangione’s attorneys contend that the Manhattan district lawyer’s workplace must be prevented from exhibiting the gun, pocket book and different gadgets to jurors as a result of police didn’t have a search warrant.
Mangione, the Ivy League-educated scion of a rich Maryland household, has pleaded not responsible to state and federal homicide prices. The state prices carry the potential for life in jail, whereas federal prosecutors are in search of the loss of life penalty.
Neither trial has been scheduled but. The subsequent listening to within the federal case is scheduled for January 9.
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