During a preliminary pretrial hearing on Friday, prosecutors said 26-year-old Baltimore County native Luigi Magionne drove into anger towards the health insurance industry, as they explained some of the evidence they presented. He claimed that he was.
“…body cameras, surveillance cameras, they gave us phone tracking information, DNA evidence,” said Andrew Alperstin, a Maryland defense lawyer.
Magione pleaded guilty to multiple murders, including first-degree murder as a terrorist act, in the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside the Hilton Midtown Hotel on December 4th.
“In New York, intentional, intentional, planned murder is a double murder. It does happen, but it's good for parole,” explained Alperstin.
However, first-degree murder in New York leads the biggest life without parole, and so the defense attorney and former prosecutor Andrew Alperstin said that Mangiony's intentions were enough to kill Thompson. They say they have to prove that they are afraid of fear. population.
“That's why terrorism is a magical word,” said Alperstin, who thinks it's stretch. ” …To demonstrate that by killing Mr. Thompson, he had the intention to force and intimidate the entire community. To be a difficult fight for prosecutors. ”
The possibility of death penalty
Mangion also faces federal murder charges that are subject to death penalty.
“The infamous name for this incident is because New York has no death penalty and the federal government has the death penalty,” he explained. “The Fed has yet to say it is going to pursue the death penalty, but that's clearly why this is happening.”
On Friday, crowds showed support for Mangion outside the hearing.
“Luigi Mangion gets caught up in a cultural issue where people really have strong feelings and people have galvanized behind him,” Alperstin said.
But Alperstein says that praises this act really hurts rather than actually helping Mangion's case.
“It really told the government, this is not okay and we have to send a strong message that this is not okay,” he explained.
The judge today sets a deadline for the lawyers to file their pretrial motions on April 9th, giving the prosecutors a response until May 14th. The judge is expected to control the motion on June 26th.
Mangion's next appearance will be in federal court on March 19th.
