UnitedHealthcare<\/a> CEO Brian Thompson on a\u00a0 Midtown street in 2024 in pleading guilty to two federal charges of stalking that resulted in Thompson\u2019s death.<\/p>\nWithin hours of his plea, Mangione\u2019s attorneys, led by Karen Freidman Agnifilo, filed a motion to dismiss the murder and weapons possession counts in Mangione\u2019s state case in a filing arguing that it amounted to double jeopardy \u2014 the legal rule that stops the government from trying a person twice for the same crime.<\/p>\n
In considering that motion, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro gave the District Attorney\u2019s Office until the end of October to reply.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore the District Attorney\u2019s Office and the Department of Justice vied for prosecutorial supremacy, they acted in concert and coordination with each other to ensure that both offices would prosecute Mr. Mangione for a single criminal episode, allowing them to each punish him separately for the same event,\u201d Agnifilo wrote in the motion seeking to dismiss all but one of the charges against Mangione in the federal case.<\/p>\n
Mangione\u2019s argument is that he has now pled guilty to the act of shooting Thompson, it would be a constitutional violation under the Fifth Amendment for the Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s Office to try him for the same incident. Agnifilo wrote that federal and state prosecutors worked in coordination on their parallel cases in order \u201cto maximize his punishment and increase each government\u2019s chances to convict him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Specifically Agnifilo is relying on New York\u2019s double jeopardy law, which legal experts have noted is broader and offers more protections than federal law, and bars a person\u00a0 from being prosecuted twice \u201cbased upon the same act or criminal transaction.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Friday\u2019s motion, Agnifilo expanded Mangione\u2019s argument that not only are the parallel cases double jeopardy but they\u2019re also a violation of his due process right to \u201cfully and fairly pursue an affirmative defense.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Agnifilo wrote that Mangione\u2019s back-to-back meant that defending himself in the state case would have reduced his ability to negate an affirmative defense \u2014 a legal strategy that could introduce new exonerating evidence.<\/p>\n
The only remaining count separate from Thompson\u2019s killing in the state case concerns Mangione\u2019s possession of a fake ID card when he was arrested in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
In response to Agnifilo\u2019s motion, the Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s Office referred amNewYork Law to its statement in response to his plea on Friday that DA Alvin Bragg \u201cremains committed to seeking justice for Mr. Thompson and his family.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luigi Mangione attends a pre-trial appearance at Manhattan Criminal Court on Aug. 11. REUTERS\/David Dee Delgado\/Pool The Manhattan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[122044,122045,2710,122046,122047,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-324075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-brian-thompson-assassination","tag-ceo-unitedhealthcare","tag-law","tag-luigit-mangione","tag-mangione-trial","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\/324075","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=324075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"Luigi](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787066656_597_2026-08-11T141622Z_2061149348_RC2DWMAHK1NO_RTRMADP_3_UNITEDHEALTH-CEO-MANGIONE.jpg\" "\\"Manhattan")
\t\t\t<\/p>\n