Luigi Mangione's defense files motion to preclude death penalty in his federal case

Lawyers for suspected assassin Luigi Mangione, an Ivy League postgraduate accused of gunning down Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare successful New York City, person filed a question successful national tribunal asking the justice to artifact the Justice Department from pursuing the decease punishment if helium is convicted.

Mangione's lawyers argued that the national case, which was filed aft New York prosecutors leveled their ain execution and coercion charges against him, is "arbitrary and capricious" and that the directive for U.S. attorneys to question superior punishment is politically motivated. 

In a 2nd argument, they besides took contented with a Justice Department Instagram station successful which the connection suggested that Mangione has already been convicted of the charges — helium has not — and that specified connection prejudiced the expansive assemblage process, which could inactive beryllium underway with the deadline to record an indictment coming adjacent week.

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Luigi Mangione appears successful Manhattan Criminal Court successful New York City for a presumption proceeding connected Feb. 21. Magnione is accused of sidesplitting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson extracurricular a Manhattan edifice past year. (Curtis Means/Pool)

"After cautious consideration, I person directed national prosecutors to question the decease punishment successful this lawsuit arsenic we transportation retired President Trump’s docket to halt convulsive transgression and Make America Safe Again," Attorney General Pam Bondi announced connected April 1.

The filing, signed by Mangione attorneys Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Avi Moskowitz, besides took contented with connection they reason suggests that the victim's presumption arsenic a CEO influenced the determination to question superior punishment.

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"Very clearly, this is simply a lawsuit that volition beryllium tried some wrong the courtroom, and extracurricular it," said Paul Mauro, a retired NYPD inspector who has been intimately pursuing the investigation.

That poses challenges to lawyers connected some sides, for the judge, and for the extremity effect to beryllium "fully founded successful justice."

"Mangione is not adjacent federally indicted yet, and the gamesmanship has begun," helium added.

Thompson, 50, was a begetter of 2 visiting New York City for a publically announced shareholder conference. 

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Surveillance video from extracurricular the edifice wherever the league was to beryllium held shows a gunman attack him from down and unfastened fire, past locomotion distant arsenic a pistillate witnesser runs successful the other direction.

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was changeable and killed successful midtown Manhattan connected Dec. 4, 2024. (Businesswire | NYPD Crimestoppers)

"Counsel is alert of nary proviso successful the decease punishment statute oregon successful the Department of Justice’s decease punishment protocol that allows for information of the social, economical oregon nonrecreational presumption of an alleged homicide unfortunate successful determining whether to question the decease penalty," they wrote. 

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Mangione is accused of plotting the assassination successful bid to sow panic successful the wellness security industry, which helium allegedly railed against successful a diary constabulary seized during his apprehension successful Pennsylvania days aft the shooting.

Luigi Mangione shouts portion officers restrain him arsenic helium arrives for his extradition proceeding astatine Blair County Courthouse successful Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, connected Dec. 10, 2024. (David Dee Delgado for Fox News Digital)

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His lawyers are asking the tribunal to instrumentality distant the imaginable decease punishment arsenic an enactment if helium is convicted, to bid expansive jurors to beryllium screened for imaginable prejudice, to bid Bondi to corroborate she is alert of rules governing extrajudicial statements, and to inspect interior Justice Department documents arsenic good arsenic communications betwixt the authorities and "anyone advocating for the decease penalty" connected behalf immoderate business, firm involvement oregon lobby. 

Nicholas Biase, the main of nationalist affairs for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, declined to remark connected the caller defence filing.