{"id":318699,"date":"2026-08-11T15:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318699\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T15:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:38:23","slug":"ny-judge-orders-press-overflow-room-for-luigi-mangione-murder-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318699\/","title":{"rendered":"NY judge orders press overflow room for Luigi Mangione murder trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Manhattan judge on Tuesday said there would be an overflow room for press and spectators at alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione\u2019s upcoming murder trial and that it was \u201creckless\u201d of his lawyers to suggest prosecutors were secretly involved in determining who will get a seat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Taking the bench a few minutes before 10 a.m., Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro said the defense\u2019s recent complaints about access were premature and that conversations had been ongoing about how to permit more people to attend the closely watched proceedings.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt no time did the district attorney\u2019s office participate in those discussions, nor did it play any role in determining media or public access. Any suggestion that the district attorney is involved is simply incorrect,\u201d Carro said.<\/p>\n

\"LuigiLuigi Mangione, right, speaks with one of his lawyers in Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The Maryland man\u2019s lawyers last week alleged a secretive process had occurred between court administrators and DA Alvin Bragg<\/a>\u2019s office to hand-pick reporters for trial coverage.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors are never involved in determining media or public access to proceedings when there are space constraints. The state Office of Court Administration<\/a> oversees the process, typically negotiating with local court reporters, who, in this case, had pushed Carro to plan to open an overflow room.<\/p>\n

The judge said allegations of exclusion and secrecy made by Mangione\u2019s team were \u201ca reckless mischaracterization of the ethics undertaken by this court\u201d to ensure transparency and public access.<\/p>\n

He noted the high-profile case, which has attracted overwhelming public interest and international media attention, was \u201cnot the first rodeo\u201d in the Manhattan courts.<\/p>\n

In a scene reminiscent of Donald Trump\u2019s hush money trial<\/a>, which saw a media circus descend on the lower Manhattan courts for some six weeks in the spring of 2024, the Daily News spotted a line forming for the Tuesday\u2019s hearing as early as 6 p.m. Monday, starting with two people who erected a tent across the street from the courthouse by Collect Pond Park and set up foldable chairs for their roughly 13-hour stakeout.<\/p>\n

\"LuigiLuigi Mangione, right, speaks with one of his lawyers in Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

After addressing accessibility concerns Tuesday morning, Carro spent the remainder of the proceeding having a discussion with the defense and the prosecution at the bench that nobody in the gallery could hear.<\/p>\n

He briefly summarized the back-and-forth before adjourning at 10:18 a.m., saying they had continued discussing jury selection and outstanding motions to be filed and decided.<\/p>\n

Mangione, 28, who wore a gray suit over a white shirt to his final pretrial hearing, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter and related charges alleging he fatally gunned down Thompson<\/a> outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown in an act of vengeance toward the U.S.\u2019s expensive healthcare industry.<\/p>\n

Mangione also faces federal stalking charges, set to be tried by the Trump Justice Department in January 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Manhattan judge on Tuesday said there would be an overflow room for press and spectators at alleged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[266,85,75,84,83,9,24,12,63],"class_list":["post-318699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318699","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=318699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}