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Luigi Mangione, 26, is set for a hearing in state court in
Manhattan. Prosecutors and Mangione's defense lawyers are
expected to provide updates on the status of the case and Judge
Gregory Carro could set deadlines for pretrial paperwork and
possibly even a trial date.
Mangione has pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of murder,
including murder as an act of terrorism, in the Dec. 4 killing
of Brian Thompson outside a midtown Manhattan hotel. The
executive was ambushed and shot on a sidewalk as he walked to an
investor conference.
Mangione also faces federal charges that could carry the
possibility of the death penalty. He is being held in a Brooklyn
federal jail alongside several other high-profile defendants,
including Sean “Diddy” Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried.
Prosecutors have said the two cases will proceed on parallel
tracks, with the state charges expected to go to trial first.
The maximum sentence for the state charges is life in prison
without parole. A Feb. 24 hearing in Pennsylvania on charges of
possessing an unlicensed firearm, forgery and providing false
identification to police was canceled.
In a statement posted on a website for his legal defense,
Mangione said: “I am overwhelmed by — and grateful for —
everyone who has written me to share their stories and express
their support. Powerfully, this support has transcended
political, racial, and even class divisions."
Mangione was arrested in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s on Dec. 9.
Police said he was carrying a gun that matched the one used in
the shooting and a fake ID. He also was carrying a notebook
expressing hostility toward the health insurance industry and
especially wealthy executives, authorities said.
Defense lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo argued at his Dec. 23
arraignment that “warring jurisdictions” had turned Mangione
into a “human ping-pong ball.”
She accused New York City Mayor Eric Adams and other government
officials of tainting the jury pool by bringing Mangione back to
Manhattan in a choreographed spectacle involving heavily armed
officers escorting him up a pier from a heliport.
Friedman Agnifilo singled out Adams’ comment on a local TV
station that he wanted to be there to look “him in the eye and
say, ‘you carried out this terroristic act in my city.’”
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