Luigi Mangione’s journal not ‘manifesto’ about healthcare industry grievances, attorney argues

Luigi Mangione's defence lawyer successful Pennsylvania continues to reason that Altoona constabulary unlawfully detained the execution fishy and searched his belongings erstwhile they identified him astatine a McDonald's pursuing a tip.

Mangione, 26, is charged with first-degree execution successful furtherance of an enactment of terrorism, stalking and a slew of different authorities and national charges successful some New York and Pennsylvania, for allegedly gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a joined begetter of two, connected a sidewalk successful Manhattan successful December 2024.

Now his lawyer says authorities' usage of the connection "manifesto" to picture Mangione's writings allegedly recovered successful his backpack during his apprehension connected Dec. 9 is "incorrect."

"The usage of this characterization of the defendant’s alleged idiosyncratic experiences and writings is incorrect, improper and without justification and has nary probative value," Altoona-based defence lawyer Thomas Dickey said successful a Tuesday tribunal filing. "Defendant believes that this characterization was done truthful solely for the intent to prejudice the suspect and enactment him successful a antagonistic airy earlier the public, each successful an effort to prejudice immoderate imaginable assemblage pool."

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Luigi Mangione appears successful Manhattan Criminal Court for a presumption proceeding successful New York City connected Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. Mangione is accused of sidesplitting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson extracurricular a Manhattan edifice past year. (Curtis Means/Pool)

Mangione allegedly changeable Thompson extracurricular the Manhattan edifice wherever UnitedHealthcare's yearly shareholder league was being held, successful an enactment prosecutors judge was meant to nonstop a connection to the healthcare security manufacture based connected a manifesto recovered connected the fishy erstwhile helium was arrested days aft Thompson's murder.

In his writings, Mangione seemingly expressed his grievances with the healthcare manufacture — specifically naming UnitedHealthcare and the shareholder league wherever Thompson was headed successful New York astatine the clip of the assassination.

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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed successful New York City. (AP Photo/UnitedHealth Group)

Dickey is asking the tribunal not to picture Mangione's alleged writings arsenic a "manifesto." He is besides asking the tribunal to suppress assorted different evidence, including what Dickey describes arsenic a warrantless hunt of the suspect's backpack, statements made to constabulary during his apprehension and DNA evidence. 

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Luigi Mangione pictured successful a Pennsylvania mugshot aft his apprehension successful transportation with the execution of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

Mangione's lawyer argued that Mangione had been improperly detained and arrested astatine the McDonald's, truthful definite grounds collected during that apprehension should not beryllium submitted arsenic grounds against his client.

The 26-year-old fishy has a grade from the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania and attended an elite backstage precocious schoolhouse successful Baltimore.

Despite immoderate supporters' characterization of him arsenic an anti-capitalist crusader, helium allegedly stopped astatine a New York City Starbucks for java minutes earlier the execution and was yet arrested portion eating hashbrowns astatine McDonald's.

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A McDonald’s edifice successful Altoona, Pennsylvania, connected Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. Luigi Mangione was arrested astatine the McDonald’s for the execution of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson successful New York City. (David Dee Delgado for Fox News Digital)

Mangione is accused of "meticulously" readying the execution with the motive of igniting a "public treatment astir the healthcare industry," according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

New York prosecutors said Mangione plotted to question to New York; find Thompson, a Minnesota nonmigratory successful municipality for UnitedHealthcare's yearly shareholder conference; and termination him. Mangione allegedly changeable Thompson from down with a 3D-printed shade weapon and suppressor. 

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Luigi Mangione departs the courtroom pursuing his arraignment successful New York City Criminal Court connected Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. Mangione pleaded not blameworthy connected authorities charges for the alleged execution of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

The NYPD released a inactive representation from surveillance video, showing him pulling his look disguise down and smiling portion flirting with a clerk astatine the check-in of the Manhattan hostel wherever constabulary accidental helium stayed for the murder. It went viral and instantly attracted a question of enactment online for the accused killer.

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The suspected gunman successful UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder, believed to beryllium Luigi Mangione, is seen flirting with a hostel worker connected surveillance footage earlier the Dec. 4 shooting. (NYPD)

The fishy allegedly fled the country of Thompson's murder, rode a motorcycle to a autobus presumption and took a autobus to Altoona, wherever helium was yet identified and arrested.

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Mangione is primitively from Maryland and precocious lived successful California and Hawaii. He graduated arsenic valedictorian from the Gilman School, a private, all-boys precocious schoolhouse successful Baltimore, successful 2016.

Mangione went connected to person his bachelor's and master's degrees successful machine subject from the University of Pennsylvania successful 2020.

Fox News Digital's Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.