A federal grand jury in Manhattan has indicted Luigi Mangione in a demise penalty-eligible case for the homicide of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, in accordance with courtroom paperwork filed Thursday.
Mangione was charged with two stalking counts, homicide by way of using a firearm, which carries the potential for capital punishment, and a firearms offense for the deadly capturing on Dec. 4 outdoors the Hilton Lodge in Midtown. He was tentatively set to seem in courtroom on Friday to enter a plea. His case was assigned to Manhattan Federal Courtroom Choose Margaret Garnett, the previous chief of the town Division of Investigation and former deputy U.S. lawyer for the Southern District of New York.
Earlier than presenting the case to a grand jury, the feds in December filed a grievance in opposition to Mangione upon his dramatic extradition to New York from Pennsylvania, when he was flown to a downtown Manhattan heliport and unexpectedly taken into custody by the feds whereas en route to seem on state-level costs being dealt with by Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg.
U.S. Lawyer Common Pam Bondi stated earlier this month that the feds would search the demise penalty in opposition to Mangione, making him the primary individual to be focused with capital punishment since President Trump’s return to energy. Trump has promised extra forceful use of the demise penalty, notably in instances in opposition to undocumented immigrants and even in instances the place the defendant isn’t accused of homicide.
In Bragg’s case, the Maryland Ivy League grad has pleaded not responsible to first-degree homicide and terror offenses, which carry the potential of life with out parole.
Thompson, a 50-year-old father of two from Minnesota, was fatally shot on the road whereas he was strolling, on his option to arrive early for an annual investor convention in December. Mangione was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., 5 days later following a nationwide manhunt that gripped the nation.
Mangione has acquired a swell of assist from folks indignant on the U.S.’s costly healthcare business, with tons of making an attempt to attend his final courtroom look. State and federal authorities allege he had a manifesto expressing hostility towards the well being business and that bullet shell casings left on the crime scene bore the phrases “deny,” “defend” and “depose,” in an obvious reference to the business routinely denying claims to maximise income.
Mangione’s attorneys declined to remark.
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