The New York J. throws accusations of terrorism against Luigi Mangione, allows you to have standing standing

A judge on Tuesday rejected accusations of terrorism against Luigi Mangione in the case of New York State on the murder of the CEO of Unitedhealthcare, Brian Thompson, but preserved the accusations of the second degree of the State against the graduate of Ivy League.

Mangione lawyers argued that the New York case and a parallel prosecution of the federal sentence on death have equipped themselves with doubles. But judge Gregory Carro rejected this argument, saying that it would be premature to take such a determination.

This is the first appearance before the Mangione court in the state affair since February.

The 27 -year -old attracted cult as a replacement for the frustrations of the health insurance industry. Dozens of his supporters presented themselves to his last audience, many bearing the green color of the Luigi video game character as a symbol of solidarity. His indictment of April in the federal affair led to similar effusion.

In his written decision, the judge said that although he was no doubt that murder was not an ordinary street crime, New York’s law does not consider something of terrorism simply because it was motivated by ideology.

“While the accused clearly expressed an animus towards UHC, and the health care industry in general, it does not follow that his objective was to intimidate and forced a civilian population”, and indeed, there was no evidence of such a objective, “wrote Carro.

Carro has planned preliminary hearings in the case for December 1, which is a few days before Mangione was next to the court in the federal case against him.

Mangione arrested 5 days after 2024

Mangione pleaded not guilty of multiple murder leaders, including murder as an act of terrorism, on December 4, 2024, killing. The surveillance video showed a masked shooter shooting Thompson from behind when he arrived for a conference on investors at the New York Hilton Midtown.

The police say that “delay”, “deny” and “deposit” have been scribbled on the ammunition, imitating a phrase commonly used to describe how insurers avoid paying complaints.

Mangione was arrested five days later, after being seen having breakfast in a McDonald’s in Altoona, Penn., About 370 kilometers west of New York. Since then, he has been detained in the same federal prison in Brooklyn where Sean “Diddy” Combs has been locked up.

The Manhattan District Prosecutor’s Office maintains that there are no double incrimination problems, because none of the mangione cases have been judged and because state and federal proceedings involve different legal theories.

Mangione’s lawyers say that duel’s affairs have created a “legal quagmire” which makes it “legally and logistically impossible to defend against them simultaneously”.

Duel case

The accusations of the state, which bear a maximum of life prison, allege Mangione wanted to “intimidate or force a civilian population”-that is to say insurance employees and investors. Federal accusations allege that Mangione has tracked Thompson and does not imply allegations of terrorism.

The American prosecutor General Pam Bondi announced in April that she ordered federal prosecutors to ask for the death penalty for “an act of political violence” and an “assassination of premeditated composure which shocked America”.

The Manhattan District Prosecutor’s Office largely quoted the Mangione’s handwritten newspaper in a judicial file aimed at maintaining its accusations of state murder. They underlined his desire to kill an insurance of insurance and his praise for Ted Kaczynski, the late terrorist known as Unabomber.

In the writings, the prosecutors said, thought about Mangione about rebeling against “the deadly and fed health insurance cartel” and said that killing an industry framework “transmits a gourmet bastard who had done it”. They also quoted a confession that they say they wrote “to the authorities”, in which he wrote that “it should be done”.

Mangione’s “intentions were obvious to his actions, but his writings are used to make these intentions explicit,” said prosecutors in the June file.

The writings, which they sometimes described as a manifesto, “transmit a clear message: that the murder of Brian Thompson was intended to bring a revolutionary change to the health care industry”.