{"id":269731,"date":"2026-06-17T16:50:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269731\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T16:50:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T16:50:47","slug":"luigi-mangione-legal-team-to-make-psychiatric-defense-in-state-murder-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269731\/","title":{"rendered":"Luigi Mangione legal team to make psychiatric defense in state murder trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Luigi Mangione appears for a pre-trial hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court on June 17, 2026. <\/p>\n

Angelina Katsanis\/Pool via REUTERS<\/p>\n

Luigi Mangione<\/a>\u2019s attorneys intend to claim that he was suffering from \u201cextreme emotional disturbance\u201d in his state trial for the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.<\/a><\/p>\n

In a revelatory hearing ahead of Mangione\u2019s September trial in his state trial, Manhattan Supreme Court<\/a> Justice Gregory Carro unsealed the record showing that Mangione\u2019s legal team had made a motion to seek a psychiatric defense.<\/p>\n

Carro then ordered Mangione\u2019s legal team to turn over documents that include medical records and the name of an expert they intend to call on, so that the Manhattan District Attorney<\/a>\u2019s office has all the information about Mangione\u2019s mental health prior to the start of the trial.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey need to know what maladies the defendant suffers,\u201d Carro said.
\n\"LuigiLuigi Mangione looks at a camera while sitting at a courtroom table with attorneys in Manhattan on June 17, 2026.Angelina Katsanis\/Pool via REUTERS\n<\/p>\n

The ruling came weeks after Carro met with the attorneys in a secret hearing<\/a> in the case. The judge clarified that he had sealed the record of the meeting in order to give the defense a chance to make a final call on moving forward with their approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, because of the nature of the defense, it would be very prejudicial,\u201d Carro said.\n<\/p>\n

The prosecutors also announced they\u2019re seeking to move Mangione from his locations at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to Rikers Island for the rest of the state trial in order to make it logistically easier to transport him back and forth for psychiatric evaluations at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

\"\"Luigi Mangione appears for a pre-trial hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, U.S., Wednesday, June 17, 2026. Angelina Katsanis\/Pool via REUTERS<\/p>\n

Shortly after Carro made the announcement, prosecutors tussled with Mangione\u2019s attorneys, complaining that they were lagging in handing over relevant court documents. Mangione\u2019s lawyer, Karen Agnifilo, insisted that last week the defense team delivered a \u201cvoluminous\u201d tranche of records.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Carro demanded that Mangione\u2019s attorneys turn over the rest of their court documents later today.\n<\/p>\n

This is a developing story; check with amNY.com later for further updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luigi Mangione appears for a pre-trial hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court on June 17, 2026. Angelina Katsanis\/Pool via…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[104038,6972,104039,104040,104041,33766,104042,6974,75,547,84,83,4327,104043,11837,9,24,63,104044,104045,104046],"class_list":["post-269731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-bellevue-hospital-evaluations","tag-brian-thompson","tag-criminal-trial-nyc","tag-developing-court-case","tag-extreme-emotional-disturbance-defense","tag-gregory-carro","tag-karen-agnifilo","tag-luigi-mangione","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-district-attorney","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-manhattan-supreme-court","tag-mental-health-defense","tag-metropolitan-detention-center-brooklyn","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-psychiatric-defense","tag-rikers-island-transfer-request","tag-unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269731","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=269731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}