set for September 8<\/a>. <\/p>\nJudge Margaret Garnett is expected to rule soon on whether it will be a death penalty case or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The only outstanding issues, prosecutors argue, are a decision on the suppression hearing and defense compliance with reciprocal discovery demands. Prosecutors said the defense team has not provided any discovery to them. <\/p>\n
Prosecutor Joel Seidemann said the DA\u2019s office is ready and the state case should take precedence. <\/p>\n
“There are significant state interests that are implicated by defendant’s crime, its investigation, and its prosecution. These state interests would be unfairly prejudiced by an unnecessary delay of this important matter until after defendant’s federal trial. Indeed, almost all murders are prosecuted in this state by local prosecutors,” Seidemann said. <\/p>\n
Mangione was indicted by a New York County grand jury on December 17, 2024, thirteen days after the CEO assassination. Twenty-five witnesses testified including six from Altoona, Pennsylvania, where Mangione was arrested at a local McDonalds. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Federal prosecutors became involved December 18 when a federal writ was served on the NYPD to produce the defendant into federal custody. Mangione remains held at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Seidemann said it is entirely natural that the state case would proceed to trial prior to the federal case.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York has said that it expects the State case to proceed to trial first. <\/p>\n
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered outside the New York Hilton in the early morning hours of December 4, 2024.<\/p>\n
NBC News has reached to a spokesperson and attorneys for Luigi Mangione as well as the U.S. Attorney\u2019s office for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Manhattan DA\u2019s office sent a letter to New York State Judge Gregory Carro Wednesday asking for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3294,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-115885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}