by Matthew Russell Lee, Substack Book Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Sept 5 – Luigi Mangione was presented in Federal court on December 19 on four charges, one of them death penalty eligible, for the killing of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson. Inner City Press was there, covering the case toward a book.
On February 4, death penalty qualified (learned) counsel was appointed for Mangione in SDNY, endorsed letter on Patreon here
On April 1 DOJ announced it will seek the death penalty against Mangione.
In the interim, after some push back, Inner City Press published a book Luigi Mangione Lone Wolf here, audiobook here.
On April 15 the US responded to Mangione's anti-death penalty filing with a ripeness argument: "The defendant has identified no authority for the notion that it can prevent the Government from seeking capital punishment before indictment." Full filing on Patreon here
On April 17, Inner City Press vlogged in the morning to expect something - and past 5 pm the SDNY prosecutors docketed an indictment of Mangione, with "Special Findings Regarding the Murder of Brian Thompson" - here.
On April 24 the US filed "NOTICE OF INTENT TO SEEK THE DEATH PENALTY" - here.
On April 25 Inner City Press live tweeted the arraignment, including Karen Friedman Agnifilo said that a telephone call between her and Mangione was inappropriately monitored. Thread.
On July 25, Mangione's lawyer filed for more information from the US - 18 page memo on Patreon here.
On August 27 the US wrote in that Mangione has enough detail, for example on "Grave Risk of Death to Additional Persons... The photograph, and the originating video, show a female bystander standing only a few feet from Thompson as the defendant fired multiple shots." 20 page memo on Patreon here.
On September 5 Mangione's team including Marc Agnifilo - also retained counsel to a defendant charged with hate crime assault of a woman who questioning the tearing down of October 7 hostage posters - wrote in for an informational outline, emphasizing that there is "absolutely no link between Mr. Mangione andthe recent murder of four people in Manhattan by Shane Tamura and there is no evidence that Mr. Tamura was influenced in any way by the murder of Mr. Thompson" - 10 page memo on Patreon here
The Federal case is US v. Mangione, 1:25-cr-176 (Garnett)
More / extra on X for Subscribers here and Substack here
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