Mangione attorneys ask choose to cease federal prosecutors from searching for loss of life penalty: “A political stunt”

Attorneys for Luigi Mangione requested a choose to cease federal prosecutors from searching for the loss of life penalty in opposition to their shopper, saying the U.S. authorities “intends to kill Mr. Mangione as a political stunt.”

The movement filed Friday within the U.S. District Court docket of the Southern District stated U.S. Lawyer Common Pam Bondi ordered the loss of life penalty to “perform President Trump’s agenda to cease violent crime and Make America Protected Once more.”

Mangione, 26, who faces state homicide and terrorism fees in New York, together with federal homicide and stalking fees, is accused of murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson final 12 months in New York Metropolis. 

Mangione has pleaded not responsible to 11 state fees and isn’t eligible for the loss of life penalty in New York State. He has not but been arraigned on the federal fees.

Karen Agnifilo and Avi Moskowitz, Mangione’s attorneys, wrote within the movement that their shopper seeks aid as a result of the lawyer basic prejudiced the grand jury pool and has corrupted the grand jury course of by publicly issuing the loss of life penalty path to prosecutors through a press launch.

“Luigi Mangione’s homicide of Brian Thompson — an harmless man and father of two younger kids — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America. After cautious consideration, I’ve directed federal prosecutors to hunt the loss of life penalty on this case as we feature out President Trump’s agenda to cease violent crime and Make America Protected Once more,” Bondi stated in a press release earlier in April. 

His attorneys additionally argued that Bondi’s Instagram submit following the press launch wherein she said that Mangione was responsible of homicide additional prejudiced the grand jury course of within the Southern District. In addition they referenced a tv look the place the Lawyer Common reiterated that Mangione hunted down and executed Thompson. His attorneys wrote that Bondi’s “sample of public statements present with exceptional readability and consistency that she has ordered this capital prosecution unabashedly for political causes.”

Mangione stays in federal custody at Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn. 

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