NBC News Top Stories | Luigi Mangione prosecutors can use gun and notebook as evidence, judge rules by Adam Reiss, Daniel Arkin
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Luigi Mangione, accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, pleaded not guilty to nine state felonies, including second‑degree murder, and faces additional federal stalking charges. A New York judge ruled that prosecutors may introduce a gun and a notebook (described as a “manifesto”) as evidence, while excluding other items seized during an “improper warrantless” search of Mangione’s backpack at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania, such as a loaded magazine, cellphone, passport, wallet and computer chip. The judge deemed a later search of the backpack at the Altoona police headquarters valid, allowing the silencer and notebook recovered there to be admitted. Thompson was shot outside a Manhattan hotel, prompting a multi‑state manhunt that led officers to Mangione eating breakfast in Altoona. Authorities recovered shell casings marked with words like “delay,” “deny” and “depose,” linked to for‑profit healthcare practices. Mangione’s state trial in Manhattan Criminal Court is slated for September, with a federal trial to follow later in the fall; he remains detained at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
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