MANHATTAN — The accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione will not seem in Manhattan federal courtroom this week as beforehand scheduled, in line with an entry on the courtroom docket.
As an alternative, Mangione’s federal case was pushed to April 18, in line with the courtroom docket.
The entry didn’t supply a purpose.
A federal grand jury has but to indict Mangione on federal prices, together with one which might get him the loss of life penalty.
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Mangione has pleaded not responsible to state homicide prices, together with one with a terrorism enhancement.
The suspect is accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in entrance of the Hilton in Midtown Manhattan on Dec. 4, 2024, because the CEO headed to an traders convention, in an act that prosecutors mentioned was premeditated, focused and “supposed to evoke terror.”
He faces three separate prosecutions: the New York state homicide case; one other for federal prices, together with terrorism; and a 3rd in Pennsylvania on prices together with possessing an unlicensed firearm, forgery and offering false identification to police. Considered one of his federal prices, homicide by way of use of a firearm, makes Mangione eligible for the loss of life penalty if convicted, however he has not but been indicted in federal courtroom.
His lawyer in New York, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, has already presaged a few of the arguments his Pennsylvania lawyer now has made along with her phrases in a Manhattan courtroom final month, that there are “very critical points” with how police in Pennsylvania obtained proof from her consumer.
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