US EditionFake Name, Unrecorded Minutes and a Backpack Search. What We’ve Learned at Luigi Mangione’s Pre-Trial Hearing
The hearing focuses on disputed evidence including a handgun and motive notes linking Luigi Mangione to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
- On December 8, 2025, Luigi Mangione appeared in Manhattan Supreme Court for the fourth day of a suppression hearing, with Judge Gregory Carro ordering continuation once Mangione is medically cleared.
- Defense lawyers argue backpack searches in Altoona, Pennsylvania violated rights, seeking to exclude a 9mm handgun and silencer plus a handwritten notebook alleging anti-health-insurance sentiments, while prosecutors contend these prove motive and premeditation.
- When officers formally arrested Mangione at 9:58 a.m., they initially found some items but later discovered a loaded handgun, silencer, and journal in his backpack, while body-camera footage shows Altoona officers questioning him for 20 minutes.
- The court's evidence rulings could determine what the state jury sees, as prosecutors previewed video, audio and forensic evidence anchoring the New York state prosecution and parallel federal case.
- A five-day manhunt ended after a McDonald’s manager placed a 911 call, with court testimony describing seized items including over 256 dollars in cash and handwritten maps, and video showed Mangione stripping before body-camera removal.
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Fake name, unrecorded minutes and a backpack search. What we’ve learned at Luigi Mangione’s pre-trial hearing
By Eric Levenson, Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — For two weeks now, a rotating cast of police officers have arrived to a Manhattan courtroom to lay out exactly what happened the day Luigi Mangione was arrested and accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Two questions are at the heart of this lengthy pre-trial suppression
ABC’s Sunny Hostin Steps Up to Play Luigi Mangione’s Defense Attorney
On Tuesday, a little over year since she made excuses for the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson and hyped the ghoulish reaction from her fellow leftist extremists, ABC’s Sunny Hostin used her platform on The View to take a crack at being the defense attorney for alleged assassin Luigi Mangione in the court of public opinion. In practice, the former federal prosecutor came off as needing to return to law school so she could le…
Luigi Mangione had handgun, silencer and 'manifesto' in backpack during arrest, police say
The 27-year-old's lawyers want to block prosecutors from showing or telling jurors at his eventual trial about statements he allegedly made and items they said police seized from his backpack during his arrest at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania.
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