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Lawyers for the suspect accused of killing a health insurance executive are asking a court to exclude evidence suggesting the alleged incident was an act of terrorism.
Mangione’s lawyers filed a motion Thursday that accused New York prosecutors of stoking “hysteria and fear” against Mangione, who is charged with gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan in December. The motion says Mangione’s alleged “manifesto” and other evidence is inadmissible because police illegally obtained it.
The motion calls for his murder and terrorism charges to be dropped, but says that if they proceed, prosecutors should not be allowed to tell jurors that Mangione allegedly wrote about his intention to “wack” an insurance executive in a notebook. Lawyers said police obtained the writings in his backpack without a warrant when arresting him, failing to meet the emergency legal threshold required for such searches.
“This Court can ameliorate these constitutional concerns by staying this state case while Mr. Mangione literally fights for his life in federal court,” the motions said, referencing capital charges from the Department of Justice (DOJ) in a separate case…
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