{"id":184175,"date":"2026-04-03T04:05:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184175\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T04:05:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:05:36","slug":"luigi-mangione-federal-trial-in-killing-of-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-further-delayed-to-jan-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184175\/","title":{"rendered":"Luigi Mangione federal trial in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson further delayed to Jan. 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOWER MANHATTAN, New York &#8212; A federal judge in New York on Thursday further delayed Luigi Mangione&#8217;s federal trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The move follows a decision by a different judge, made on Wednesday, to <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/accused-gunman-death-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-return-manhattan-court\/18821043\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">push his state trial to September 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Judge Gregory Carro, the judge in the state case, gave no reason for delaying the start to September, but the defense had been requesting it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Mangione&#8217;s federal trial will now begin in January 2027 with jury selection on the 5th and opening statements on the 25th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Mangione pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges after he was arrested for allegedly gunning down Thompson in Midtown Manhattan in December 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Mangione, 27, faces the possibility of life in prison if he&#8217;s convicted in either case. U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett previously threw out the federal charges that carry the possibility of the death penalty and Carro previously tossed out an enhancement to the state murder charges that said Mangione&#8217;s alleged conduct amounted to terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ABC News Internet Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER MANHATTAN, New York &#8212; A federal judge in New York on Thursday further delayed Luigi Mangione&#8217;s federal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[74105,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-184175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-74105","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-manhattan-headlines","11":"tag-manhattan-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184175","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=184175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}