By Jack Queen<\/p>\n
NEW YORK, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down a health insurance executive on \u200ca Manhattan sidewalk, is due in court on Tuesday for a \u200chearing ahead of his murder trial next month.<\/p>\n
Mangione, 28, is accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare \u200bCEO Brian Thompson outside a hotel in December 2024. The killing was widely condemned by public officials but became emblematic of many Americans’ frustration with health insurance industry practices.<\/p>\n
Mangione has pleaded not guilty to murder, weapons and \u200cforgery charges brought by \u2060Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. He also pleaded not guilty to stalking charges in a separate federal case.<\/p>\n
At \u2060Tuesday’s hearing before Justice Gregory Carro, the parties are expected to discuss topics including jury selection and public access to the highly anticipated trial.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors say \u200bthey can \u200bprove Mangione’s guilt with hundreds of \u200bhours of surveillance video, fingerprints, \u200cDNA, a cellphone, a gun with matching ballistics and a notebook in which Mangione allegedly wrote of hating insurers and wanting to kill.<\/p>\n
Mangione’s lawyers have revealed almost nothing about their potential trial strategy, though a July court filing indicated they might argue Mangione lost control of his \u200cactions due to an extreme mental health \u200bbreakdown. They have not conceded that he \u200bwas the shooter.<\/p>\n
Thompson led \u200bUnitedHealth Group’s insurance unit before he was shot dead \u200cin the early morning outside a \u200bhotel where an investor \u200bconference was taking place.<\/p>\n
Graphic footage of the killing and a five-day manhunt for a suspect made the case a media fixture \u200band social media sensation. \u200cMangione was arrested in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
His trial in the federal case \u200bis scheduled to begin in January.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Jack Queen in \u200bNew York; Editing by Mark Porter)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jack Queen NEW YORK, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6972,51284,6851,30634,6974,75,84,83,30638,9,24,63,120120],"class_list":["post-318527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-brian-thompson","tag-federal-case","tag-health-insurance","tag-health-insurance-industry","tag-luigi-mangione","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-murder-trial","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-trial-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318527","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=318527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}