{"id":994498,"date":"2026-08-11T14:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/994498\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T14:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:30:45","slug":"hearing-for-murder-trial-of-luigi-mangione-begins-in-new-york-city-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/994498\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing for murder trial of Luigi Mangione begins in New York City court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down a health insurance executive on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-901794\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manhattan<\/a> sidewalk, arrived in court on Tuesday for a hearing ahead of his murder trial next month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-899917\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mangione<\/a>, 28, wore a gray suit and white unbuttoned collar with no tie as he entered Justice Gregory Carro&#8217;s lower Manhattan courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>He is accused of shooting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-885059\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson<\/a> outside a hotel in December 2024. The killing was widely condemned by public officials but became emblematic of many Americans\u2019 frustration with health insurance industry practices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Mangione has pleaded not guilty to murder, weapons and forgery charges brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. He also pleaded not guilty to stalking charges in a separate federal case.<\/p>\n<p>At Tuesday\u2019s hearing before Carro, the parties are expected to discuss topics including jury selection and public access to the highly anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/article-905008\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Prosecutors say they can prove Mangione\u2019s guilt with hundreds of hours of surveillance video, fingerprints, DNA, a cellphone, a gun with matching ballistics and a notebook in which Mangione allegedly wrote of hating insurers and wanting to kill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Mangione\u2019s lawyers have revealed almost nothing about their potential trial strategy, though a July court filing indicated they might argue Mangione lost control of his actions due to an extreme mental health breakdown. They have not conceded that he was the shooter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Thompson led UnitedHealth Group&#8217;s insurance unit before he was shot dead in the early morning outside a hotel where an investor conference was taking place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Graphic footage of the killing and a five-day manhunt for a suspect made the case a media fixture and social media sensation. Mangione was arrested in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">His trial in the federal case is scheduled to begin in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down a health insurance executive on a Manhattan sidewalk, arrived in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":994499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,281,5249,9620,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,12433,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-994498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-court","tag-manhattan","tag-murder","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-trial","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117077359059084313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/994499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}