{"id":217435,"date":"2025-10-11T19:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/217435\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T19:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:35:07","slug":"luigi-mangiones-lawyers-seek-dismissal-of-federal-charges-in-assassination-of-unitedhealthcare-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/217435\/","title":{"rendered":"Luigi Mangione’s lawyers seek dismissal of federal charges in assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a New York federal judge Saturday to dismiss some criminal charges, including the only count for which he could face the death penalty, from a federal indictment brought against him in the December assassination of UnitedHealthcare\u2019s chief executive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In papers filed in Manhattan federal court, the lawyers said prosecutors should also be prevented from using at trial his statements to law enforcement officers and his backpack where a gun and ammunition were found.<\/p>\n

They said Mangione was not read his rights before he was questioned by law enforcement officers, who arrested him after Brian Thompson was fatally shot as he arrived at a Manhattan hotel for an investor conference. <\/p>\n

They added that officers did not obtain a warrant before searching Mangione\u2019s backpack.<\/p>\n

Mangione, 27, has pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges in the fatal shooting of Brian Thompson on Dec. 4 as he arrived at a Manhattan hotel for his company\u2019s annual investor conference.<\/p>\n

The killing set off a multi-state search after the suspected shooter slipped away from the scene and rode a bike to Central Park, before taking a taxi to a bus depot that offers service to several nearby states.<\/p>\n

Five days later<\/a>, a tip from a McDonald\u2019s about 233 miles (375 kilometers) away in Altoona, Pennsylvania, led police to arrest Mangione. He has been held without bail since then.<\/p>\n

In their submission, defense lawyers provided a minute-by-minute description of how police officers apprehended a cooperative Mangione, including a photograph from a police body-worn camera of the suspect initially sitting alone at a table with a white mask covering nearly all of his face.<\/p>\n

They said Mangione was first approached by two \u201cfully armed\u201d police officers when one of them \u201ctold Mr. Mangione that someone had called the police because they thought he was suspicious\u201d after he\u2019d been there about 40 minutes.<\/p>\n

When the officers asked to see his identification, Mangione turned over a New Jersey driver\u2019s license with someone else\u2019s name, according to the filing.<\/p>\n

As Mangione prepared to eat his food, the officers asked him to stand up with his hands atop his head so they could frisk him, the lawyers wrote.<\/p>\n

Soon afterward, one of the officers went outside to summon more officers, telling a colleague he was \u201c100 percent\u201d convinced that Mangione was the suspect they were looking for, the lawyers said. Within minutes, nearly a half dozen additional officer arrived.<\/p>\n

Last month, lawyers for Mangione<\/a> asked that his federal charges be dismissed and the death penalty be taken off the table as a result of public comments by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. In April, Bondi directed prosecutors in New York to seek the death penalty, calling the killing of Thompson a \u201cpremeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.\u201d <\/p>\n

Murder cases are usually tried in state courts, but prosecutors have also charged Mangione under a federal law on murders committed with firearms as part of other \u201ccrimes of violence.\u201d It\u2019s the only charge for which Mangione could face the death penalty, since it\u2019s not used in New York state.<\/p>\n

The papers filed early Saturday morning argued that this charge should be dismissed because prosecutors have failed to identify the other offenses that would be required to convict him, saying that the alleged other crime \u2014 stalking \u2014 is not a crime of violence.<\/p>\n

The assassination and its aftermath have captured the American imagination, setting off a cascade of resentment and online vitriol<\/a> toward U.S. health insurers while rattling corporate executives<\/a> concerned about security.<\/p>\n

After the killing, investigators found the words \u201cdelay,\u201d \u201cdeny\u201d and \u201cdepose,\u201d written in permanent marker on ammunition at the scene. The words mimic a phrase used by insurance industry critics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a New York federal judge Saturday to dismiss some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,98220,3071,793,694,3073,4381,2221,68464,4227,2005,1999,3,3131,795,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-217435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-brian-thompson","tag-crime","tag-general-news","tag-homicide","tag-indictments","tag-law-enforcement","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-luigi-mangione","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-pam-bondi","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}