Luigi Mangione wants laptop in jail cell to 'properly help prepare his defense,' lawyers say

Luigi Mangione, the antheral accused of sidesplitting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson successful acold humor past year, has asked for a laptop portion helium awaits proceedings successful jail.

A tribunal filing made nationalist precocious connected Monday showed that Mangione, 26, wants a laptop for ineligible purposes, according to The Associated Press. His lawyers projected that 1 beryllium configured for him truthful that helium tin presumption documents and different worldly related to his execution case.

Prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office are "frowning connected the laptop request" arsenic they accidental witnesses person been threatened, according to Mangione's lawyers via The AP, though defence lawyer Karen Frieman Agnifilo said the alleged threats person nary transportation to the accused killer.

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Luigi Mangione, who is accused of sidesplitting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, said helium wants a laptop successful jailhouse truthful helium tin presumption documents and different worldly related to his execution case. (Curtis Means/Pool)

If Mangione is approved to person a laptop, it would beryllium highly constricted with nary entree to the internet, games, movies oregon different entertainment, according to the tribunal filing. 

He would, however, person entree to much than 15,000 pages of documents and thousands of hours of video related to his lawsuit that prosecutors turned implicit to his attorneys.

If helium is not approved, helium tin presumption each the aforesaid worldly erstwhile helium is gathering with his lawyers, who reason that determination aren't capable visiting hours successful the time for Mangione to bash that successful a mode that would "properly assistance hole his defense."

Mangione's lawyers reason helium should person entree to the laptop successful jailhouse to assistance him decently hole for his case. (Curtis Means/Pool)

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Mangione, a 2020 postgraduate from the University of Pennsylvania, is accused of shooting Thompson to decease extracurricular a Manhattan edifice successful December 2024. 

Thompson, a 50-year-old hubby and begetter of two, was astatine the edifice preparing to be an capitalist league held by UnitedHealthcare erstwhile helium was gunned down from down connected the sidewalk.

Luigi Mangione, 26, is successful jailhouse facing a slew of charges for the shooting decease of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

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Thompson's execution sent shockwaves crossed the security manufacture and prompted immoderate companies to region biographies of apical enactment members from their websites.

The transgression besides unveiled a unusual question of enactment for Mangione arsenic galore Americans cited vexation with wellness security and the mode the manufacture operates.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.