The suspect’s assassin Luigi Mangione returns on Friday at the New York Criminal Court for hearing regarding state accusations of murder and terrorism in widespread case over the murder of executive director Unitedhealthcare in the style of assassination of Brian Thompson in Manhattan.
The 26-year-old former Ivy League was accused of chasing Thompson, a married father of two children, and shot him in the back in front of a shareholder conference in early December, in an alleged attack that investigators painted as cold-blooded and intentionally.
Many of his defenders quickly noticed that he was considered innocent until he was proven guilty in the eyes of the law. But his significant support is concern about canceling the potential jury – when jurors make a verdict on the basis of ideology, not the law.
“The choice of jury will be crucial in the case of Mangione,” said Edwina Elcox, a veteran based in Boise whose former clients included the so -called “cult mom” Lori Vallow. “It’s viewed as a modern Robin Hood.”
The supervisory picture published by Nypd shows suspect in the shooting of the death of General Director United Healthcare, Brian Thompson on Wednesday, December 4, 2024, the suspect can be seen approaching Thompson from behind and shoots him several times before he moved away from the place events. (Nypd Crimestoppers)
Donations to his legal defense fund surpassed $ 500,000 – raised more than $ 200,000 in the last 10 days, when fans were approaching approaching a turning point of $ 300,000 with more than 10,000 donors. Some even described him as “humanitarian” advocates.
“It’s a fascinating case,” Elcox told Fox News Digital. “Executive Director Bio A terribly unsympathetic character of a company that has moves horror talk about how [it] People who are desperately needed by various medical interventions were treated – opposed to a handsome, educated, talented young man without criminal history. ”
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Luigi Mangione appears at the Supreme Court in Manhattan, New York on December 2, 2024. Mangione faces accusations of murder for allegedly cracking executive director Unitedhealthcare Brian Thompson. (Curtis means for a Dailymail/pool)
Although both sides are likely to focus very on Voir Dire, there is still strong evidence in that case, said Paul Mauro, a retired NYPD inspector.
“The jury nullification could always be a problem, especially that this child came to the incapsulating of so progressive spasms according to corporations and insurance industry, but I don’t think Manhattan was completely defiant,” he told Fox News Digital. “Yes, this is a place that brought us Alvin Bragg, but this is also a place where 12 ordinary New Yorkers released Daniel Penny.”
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The case looks “very strong” at this stage, he said, and he expects jurors to be responsible for weighing evidence.
“And everyone who thinks the jury is canceling the good idea, I would just remind them that there is The federal case of death penalty Against the Mangione, which lurks behind Bragg’s case, if the federals should bring it, “he added.
Mangionone faces three separate criminal proceedings, in New York, Pennsylvania and Federal Court.
Unitedhealthcare’s murder suspect Luigi Mangione charged in New York
Executive director Unitedhealthcare Brian Thompson was killed in New York on December 4th. (AP Photo/Unitedhealth Group)
The murder has been politically accused from the beginning – after the police revealed that they had taken out the houses with bullets written at the scene: “Defend themselves”, “take away” and “deny”.
These words are creepy similar to the title of a book that is extremely critical of Thompson’s health insurance industry, “Delay, refuse, defend: why insurance companies do not pay requirements and what you can do about it,” Jay Feinman wrote and published in 2010.
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The screenshot of the surveillance shots posted by the NYPD shows an alleged person sought in connection with the shooting of the Death of Executive Director Unitedhealthcare Brian Thompson at Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, December 4, 2024. (Nypd Crime Stopers)
Mangionone graduated from Ivy League University in Pennsylvania and attended an elite private high school in Baltimore. Despite the characterization of some supporters as an anti -Capitalist crusader, he allegedly stopped in New York Starbucks at coffee a few minutes before the murder and was eventually arrested by eating a hashbrowns in McDonald’s in Altona.
The Mangione, which the police claim to have been running a crime magazine, has been charged with “carefully” planning of murder with motive for burning “public discussion on the health industry” Ministry of Justice.
Executive director Unitedhealthcare killed the suspected Luigi Mangione in a picture of McDonald’s in Altoon, Pennsylvania, on Monday, December 9, 2024. (Pennsylvania State Police)
Federal prosecutors claim that he chased the victim, arrived in New York City for a week in advance and scouting his environment. Police allegedly found their DNA and fingerprints near the crime scene and said he had a gun associated with a killing in a backpack when he was arrested for days later.
Nypd posted a quiet picture from a video of surveillance, showing him pulling Coronavirus down and smiling while flirting with a clerk when reporting a hostel in Manhattan, where police say he stayed for murder. He went virally and immediately attracted a wave of support online for the accused killer.
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Luigi Mangione shouts as officials restrain him as he arrives at the hearing of extradition in the courtyard of the Blair district in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. (David Dee Delgado for Fox News Digital)
Police said they were allegedly recovered by a suspect murder weaponThe 3D print by Suprezor and the same false ID used to arrest in New York after the arrest of the Mangione.
The group behind his defense collection, the Law Committee of the same name on December 4, describes himself as a “team of 15 volunteers throughout the United States” who “created independently by the Mangiono supporters on his behalf.” Two spokesmen, Sam Beard and Jamie Peck, also hosted the “Communism and Gossip” called “Party Girls”.
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Hearing on Monday in Pennsylvania case He was postponed while awaiting trial for more serious charges in New York and in the Federal Court, which could result in a haunting prison without conditional freedom or death.
Fox News’ Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.
