\n Luigi Mangione\u2019s defense has filed a motion to dismiss most of the state charges against him related to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.\n <\/p>\n
\n Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Mangione\u2019s attorney, asked the state court to dismiss the second-degree murder and weapons possession charges against her client, according to the filing.\n <\/p>\n
\n That accounts for seven of the eight state charges, with the surviving charge being for the possession of an allegedly fraudulent identification card \u201cwhich took place on a different date and location than the conduct in the remaining counts,\u201d the motion says.\n <\/p>\n
\n The others should be dismissed because Mangione pleaded guilty today in federal court to charges related to Thompson\u2019s death, the filing argues, contending \u201cthe dual prosecutions arising out of the same event\u201d violated Mangione\u2019s rights.\n <\/p>\n
\n The motion alleges that the New York County District Attorney\u2019s Office and the US Department of Justice improperly coordinated their efforts to ensure the state\u2019s case would go to trial before the federal case in order to \u201cavoid double jeopardy protections.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Federal and state prosecutors \u201chave sensationalized this case and misapplied statutes in an effort to overcharge him,\u201d the motion alleges.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cBy explicitly coordinating and planning the order of prosecutions against Mr. Mangione so as to maximize his punishment and increase each government\u2019s chances to convict him,\u201d the motion says.\n <\/p>\n
\n A spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s Office said it is \u201cprepared to litigate the defense motions.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Mangione pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of Thompson, ahead of the state case that is set to go to trial on September 8.\n <\/p>\n
\n This post has been updated with additional information from the motion.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luigi Mangione\u2019s defense has filed a motion to dismiss most of the state charges against him related to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-813782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-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\/813782","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=813782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}