Protection attorneys for alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione stated Thursday in a brand new courtroom submitting that the murder indictment a state grand jury returned towards him needs to be dismissed as a result of double jeopardy and different alleged violations.
The indictment needs to be dismissed “as a result of concurrent state and federal prosecutions violate the Double Jeopardy Clause, the Fourteenth Modification’s Due Course of Clause and Mr. Mangione’s constitutional rights towards self-incrimination, to meaningfully defend himself, to a good and neutral jury and to the efficient help of counsel,” protection attorneys wrote.
Protection lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo stated within the submitting that “prosecutorial one-upmanship” resulted in Mangione dealing with state and federal prices in New York and separate prices in Pennsylvania.
Luigi Mangione seems in courtroom for a listening to, Feb. 21, 2025, in New York.
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Agnifilo wrote, “377 individuals had been murdered in New York Metropolis in 2024; just one, however-the December 4, 2024, capturing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson-has led to a authorized tug-of-war between state and federal prosecutors as they struggle for who controls the destiny of 26-year-old Luigi Mangione.”
Attorneys for Mangione, who has pleaded not responsible to the December homicide of Thompson, additionally argued that the terrorism improve added by the Manhattan district lawyer’s workplace needs to be tossed out as a result of “proof failed to ascertain the required factor that Mr. Mangione supposed to intimidate or coerce a civilian inhabitants” or affect the insurance policies of presidency.
To prosecutors, the first-degree homicide cost is warranted due to the phrases detectives stated they discovered on shell casings – delay, deny, depose – which are typically related to insurance coverage claims. They’ve additionally pointed to passages of Mangione’s writings, which described Mangione’s deepening fixation on UnitedHealthcare and an rising malice over the company’s purported greed.
Mangione has pleaded not responsible to federal prices that might consequence within the loss of life penalty if he’s convicted.
“Forcing Mr. Mangione to defend himself within the immediate case will take away rights afforded to him within the loss of life penalty case,” Agnifilo wrote within the submitting.
Mangione’s attorneys additionally sought to suppress statements he made to authorities in Altoona, Pennsylvania, the place he was arrested after a five-day manhunt and the place “officers failed to offer him with Miranda warnings,” in accordance Thursday’s courtroom submitting.
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