Luigi Mangione Plans to Withdraw Mental Health Crisis Claims
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Luigi Mangione plans to withdraw mental health crisis claims
Luigi Mangione’s attorneys have withdrawn their plan to allege at trial that he was undergoing a mental health crisis, court filings revealed on Friday. Mangione pleaded not guilty in 2024 to the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The notice came in a letter that Mangione’s attorneys sent to Justice Gregory Carro of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. In the letter, the defense team withdrew its notice of intent to proffer p…
Luigi Mangione overruled his own lawyers with a 'change of heart' on psych defense, legal expert says
Luigi Mangione withdrew his proposed psychiatric defense in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson hours before a key deadline, with no explanation given.
With a surprising reversal of course, the lawyers of Luigi Mangione have communicated that their assistant will no longer raise the psychiatric defense to the trial for the killing of the co of UnitedHealthcare Brian Thompson. The recantation of Thursday arrived just a day after the lawyers of Mangione had communicated to Judge Gregory Carro the intention to pursue a defense based on the assertion that the 28-year-old graduate of a prestigious A…
UnitedHealthCare CEO Killing: Luigi Mangione Withdraws Psychiatric Defence in State Murder Case
NEW YORK, United States — Lawyers for Luigi Mangione have withdrawn plans to use a psychiatric defence in his state murder trial over the killing of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, according to court documents filed on Thursday, June 18, 2026. The filing came a day after Judge Gregory Carro of New York state court said Mangione’s defence team had planned to argue that he was experiencing an extreme emotional disturbance …
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