Luigi Mangione is predicted to look on Monday in a Manhattan courtroom for his arraignment on state homicide and terror fees within the deadly capturing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
He’s going through 11 fees, together with first-degree homicide in furtherance of terrorism. The arraignment is predicted to be presided over by Decide Gregory Carro.
Luigi Mangione sits between his protection attorneys Karen Friedman Agnifilo and her husband Marc Agnifilo throughout his federal courtroom listening to in New York Metropolis, Dec. 19, 2024, on this courtroom sketch.
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A Manhattan grand jury upgraded fees in opposition to Mangione, 26, final week to incorporate first-degree homicide in furtherance of terrorism.
He’s additionally charged in New York with two counts of second-degree homicide, certainly one of which is charged as killing as an act of terrorism; two counts of legal possession of a weapon within the second diploma; 4 counts of legal possession of a weapon within the third diploma; one depend of legal possession of a weapon within the fourth diploma; and one depend of legal possession of a cast instrument within the second diploma.
He faces a most sentence of life in jail with out parole if convicted of the state fees.
Folks maintain placards on the day Luigi Mangione, the suspect within the homicide of UnitedHealth Group government Brian Thompson, consented to be extradited from Pennsylvania, outdoors a U.S. district courtroom in New York, Dec. 19, 2024.
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There’s additionally a federal case in opposition to Mangione that’s operating concurrently, by which one of many fees, homicide via use of a firearm, would make Mangione eligible for the demise penalty if he is convicted.
Each instances are along with the fees introduced in opposition to Mangione in Pennsylvania, the place he was arrested and the place he faces fees together with forgery and possession of an unlicensed firearm.
Mangione was transported to New York on Dec. 19 after waiving his proper to an extradition listening to that morning in courtroom in Blair County, Pennsylvania.
Upon his arrival in New York, Mangione was positioned underneath arrest by federal authorities.
Protection legal professional Karen Friedman Agnifilo stated Mangione wouldn’t initially contest pretrial detention, and he was taken into police custody.
Mangione then made his preliminary look in Manhattan federal courtroom the identical day, hours after the unsealing of a legal grievance charging him with stalking and murdering Brian Thompson. He didn’t enter a plea.
Luigi Mangione, the suspect within the homicide of UnitedHealth Group government Brian Thompson, arrives at a helicopter pad after being extradited from Pennsylvania, in New York Metropolis, Dec. 19, 2024.
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Agnifilo stated her shopper was ready to look in state courtroom and stated the federal fees had been sprung on them.
“It is a extremely uncommon state of affairs we discover ourselves in,” Agnifilo stated. “I’ve by no means seen something like that.”
She stated the theories of the 2 instances look like in battle, noting the state case accused Mangione of terrorizing a bunch of individuals whereas the federal case accused him of stalking a person.
The choose instructed the events to confer.
Danielle Filson, a spokesperson for Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg, stated this week that “the state case will proceed in parallel with any federal case.”
Mangione’s subsequent scheduled courtroom date for his federal case is Jan. 18.
