Although Mangione signaled he wasn\u2019t interested in speaking, police continued asking questions, and he continued answering, video showed. Nearly 20 minutes passed before police informed him of his right to remain silent.<\/p>\n
The exchanges<\/a>\u00a0have been scrutinized this week at a lengthy New York court hearing as Mangione\u2019s lawyers try to keep some key evidence from being presented at his murder trial, including his statements to police and a gun and diary officers say they found in his backpack when he was arrested Dec. 9, 2024, in Altoona, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n Mangione\u2019s lawyers argue that his statements aren\u2019t fair game for trial because officers asked questions before reading his rights. The defense says the contents of his backpack should be excluded because police didn\u2019t get a warrant before searching it.<\/p>\n The standards surrounding police questioning and searches are complicated and often argued over once cases get to court. However the issues are ultimately resolved in Mangione\u2019s case, the hearing is giving the public an extensive preview of some testimony, video, 911 audio and other records.<\/p>\n Luigi Mangione appears in Manhattan Criminal Court for an evidence hearing, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in New York. (Angela Weiss\/Pool Photo via AP)\n<\/p>\n Luigi Mangione appears in Manhattan Criminal Court for an evidence hearing, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in New York. (Curtis Means \/Pool Photo via AP)\n<\/p>\n Luigi Mangione appears in Manhattan Criminal Court for an evidence hearing, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in New York. (Curtis Means \/Pool Photo via AP)\n<\/p>\n Luigi Mangione appears in Manhattan Criminal Court for an evidence hearing, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in New York. (Angela Weiss\/Pool Photo via AP)\n<\/p>\n Show Caption<\/p>\n 1 of 4<\/p>\n Luigi Mangione appears in Manhattan Criminal Court for an evidence hearing, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in New York. (Angela Weiss\/Pool Photo via AP)\n<\/p>\n Expand<\/a> Mangione has pleaded not guilty to state and federal murder charges. The hearing, which\u00a0started Monday<\/a>\u00a0and could extend to next week, applies only to the state case.<\/p>\n As Mangione sat in a Manhattan court on Thursday\u2019s anniversary of the killing, UnitedHealthcare lowered the flags at its campuses in Minnetonka and Eden Prairie, Minnesota, in Thompson\u2019s memory. Employees were encouraged to engage in volunteering.<\/p>\n The 27-year-old Mangione, meanwhile, appeared to follow the court proceedings intently, at times leaning over the defense table to scrutinize papers or take notes. He briefly looked down as Altoona Police Officer Tyler Frye was asked about a strip-search of Mangione after his arrest. Under the department\u2019s policy, that search wasn\u2019t recorded.<\/p>\n \u2018I don\u2019t know what you guys are up to\u2019<\/p>\n Five days after Thompson was gunned down, Altoona police were tipped that someone at the McDonald\u2019s resembled the much-publicized suspect in the killing. But Frye and Officer Joseph Detwiler initially approached Mangione with a low-key tone, saying only that someone had said he looked \u201csuspicious.\u201d Asked for his ID, he gave a phony New Jersey driver\u2019s license with a fake name, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n Moments later, after frisking Mangione, Detwiler stepped away to communicate with dispatchers about the license, leaving the rookie Frye by Mangione\u2019s table. Frye asked him, \u201cWhat\u2019s going on?\u201d and what had brought him to Altoona.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know what you guys are up to. I\u2019m just going to wait,\u201d Mangione answered, and he inquired what was afoot.<\/p>\n After repeating the claim that someone was suspicious of Mangione, Frye asked: \u201cYou don\u2019t want to talk to me or anything?\u201d<\/p>\n Mangione indicated that he didn\u2019t, shaking his head. But he continued to answer other questions asked by the officers, and also posed a few of his own.<\/p>\n \u201cCan I ask why there\u2019s so many cops here?\u201d he asked shortly before being informed he was being arrested on a forgery charge related to his false ID. Roughly a dozen officers had converged on the restaurant, and Mangione had been told he was being investigated and had been handcuffed and read his rights.<\/p>\n When he was arrested, an officer asked whether there was anything in the backpack that police needed to know about.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m going to remain silent,\u201d Mangione replied.<\/p>\n Police went on to search the bag. They also searched Mangione\u2019s pockets, finding objects including a pocket knife \u2014 which he alerted them to \u2014 and what appeared to be a neatly written to-do list. Entries for the previous day ranged from \u201cdigital cam\u201d to \u201chot meal and water bottles\u201d to \u201ctrash bag(s).\u201d<\/p>\n Among the items for the day of his arrest: \u201csurvival kit.\u201d<\/p>\n What\u2019s at stake?<\/p>\n The evidence is key to prosecutors\u2019 case. They have said the\u00a09 mm handgun<\/a>\u00a0found in the backpack matches the firearm used in the killing, that\u00a0writings in the notebook<\/a>\u00a0laid out Mangione\u2019s\u00a0disdain for health insurers<\/a>\u00a0and ideas about killing a CEO at an investor conference, and that he gave police the same fake name that the alleged gunman used at a New York hostel days before the shooting.<\/p>\n![\"Luigi](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AP25338536522119.jpg\"\/)
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