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The judge overseeing the New York state murder trial of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, ruled Monday that prosecutors can use as evidence a gun and a notebook previously described as a \u201cmanifesto.\u201d
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State Judge Gregory Carro\u2019s ruling effectively rejected the defense team\u2019s argument that those items were seized illegally, delivering a partial victory to prosecutors.
However, Carro said prosecutors cannot admit other items found during an initial search of <\/strong>Mangione\u2019s backpack when he was arrested at a McDonald\u2019s restaurant in Pennsylvania two years ago, including a loaded magazine, a cellphone, a passport, a wallet and a computer chip.
Carro said the arresting officers conducted an \u201cimproper warrantless search\u201d at the McDonald\u2019s, highlighting that it happened in view of the public and the restaurant\u2019s employees.
But the judge said a subsequent search of Mangione\u2019s backpack at the Altoona police headquarters was \u201cvalid,\u201d denying the defense team\u2019s bid to suppress the silencer and notebook recovered at the station.
Carro said Mangione\u2019s statements to officers made before he received his Miranda warnings, including why he allegedly lied about his name and whether he had a fraudulent ID, will not be allowed at trial.
\u201cThe officers positioned themselves in a manner that effectively encircled the defendant and controlled the immediate area, creating a police-dominated atmosphere,\u201d the judge wrote. \u201cTheir presence and positioning significantly restricted the defendant\u2019s freedom of movement and foreclosed any avenue of departure.\u201d
However, Carro said that Mangione\u2019s \u201cspontaneous\u201d remarks to Pennsylvania correctional officers, who were monitoring him while he was held at a correctional facility, are admissible.
Those statements included Mangione speaking about being arrested at McDonald\u2019s with a backpack containing a 3D-printed pistol and a magazine, as well as conversations about private vs. public health care systems.
Mangione\u2019s arrest came five days after Thompson, a 50-year-old father of two, was shot dead outside a Manhattan hotel as he walked to an investors\u2019 conference. The daytime killing set off a frantic manhunt across the Northeast.
Police officers were eventually called to the McDonald\u2019s restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where Mangione was spotted eating breakfast. Altoona is roughly 280 miles west of Manhattan.
Mangione\u2019s lawyers have argued that some of the evidence was obtained through unconstitutional searches and questioning during that encounter, while prosecutors insist it was lawfully collected.
The 28-year-old defendant has pleaded not guilty to nine state felony charges, including second-degree murder and various counts related to his possession of a weapon.
\u201cThis type of premeditated, targeted gun violence cannot and will not be tolerated, and my office has been working day in and day out to bring the defendant to justice,\u201d Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in December 2024.
The state charges come with the possibility of life in prison. (New York does not have the death penalty after its capital punishment statute was ruled unconstitutional in 2004.)
Mangione has also pleaded not guilty in a separate federal case charging him with two counts of stalking, each carrying a maximum sentence of life without parole.
In both cases, prosecutors may highlight evidence found at the scene of Thompson\u2019s killing. Authorities have said they recovered shell casings with the words \u201cdelay,\u201d \u201cdeny\u201d and \u201cdepose\u201d written on them \u2014 terms associated with the practices of the for-profit healthcare industry.
The state trial in Manhattan Criminal Court is tentatively scheduled to begin in September, followed by a federal trial sometime later in the fall. Mangione has been detained at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since December 2024.
Adam Reiss is a reporter and producer for NBC and MSNBC.
Daniel Arkin is a senior reporter at NBC News.
Chloe Atkins reports for the NBC News National Security and Law Unit, based in New York.
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