Luigi Mangione Files Another Motion Attacking Death Penalty Charge

Luigi Mangione is attempting to poke extra holes in his federal demise penalty case … submitting a brand new movement attacking the cost that might finish his life if he is convicted of it.

Mangione and his attorneys — Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Marc Agnifilo — are asking the choose to toss depend 3 of his 4-count federal indictment — murder by use of a firearm — which carries a most sentence of demise or life in prison.

Federal prosecutors indicted Luigi in 2024, accusing him of fatally capturing UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson on the road in Midtown Manhattan. New York state prosecutors have additionally charged Luigi with murdering Thompson, in addition to different severe offenses.

In their federal movement, Luigi and his attorneys are additionally asking the choose to throw out depend 4 — discharging a firearm outfitted with a silencer in furtherance of a crime of violence, which carries a possible life sentence.

Luigi and Co. additionally need federal prosecutors to be barred from utilizing his statements to regulation enforcement throughout his 2024 arrest at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Police discovered Luigi in possession of a backpack containing a gun and ammo.

What’s extra, Luigi’s attorneys say the backpack and its contents shouldn’t be entered as proof at trial as a result of Luigi wasn’t learn his Miranda Rights and police by no means received a warrant to look it.

In September, Luigi filed a movement in his federal case asking the choose to throw out his “unconstitutional” indictment as a result of his rights had been “intentionally and serially violated” by the NYPD and federal authorities so as to carry a demise penalty cost.