Luigi Mangione’s team is trying to get key evidence thrown out of UnitedHealthcare CEO murder case- The Week

Luigi Mangione, who has been attending hearings from Monday, is on a bid to throw out key evidence from his case, prosecutors say ties him to the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Mangionie will be back on Tuesday at court to attend his State murder trial for his second day of testimony. The judges will have to weigh whether to throw out the key evidence.

In September, Mangione’s lawyers got the State terrorism charges against him thrown out.

Now they are focusing on the ‘improper evidence’ the police collected during his arrest CNN reported.

Mangione’s defence team says that police illegally searched Mangione’s backpack without a warrant and failed to read him his Miranda rights before questioning him. They say that the unconstitutional conduct tainted the arrest and threatened his right to a fair trial.

According to court documents, a gun, ammunition and a notebook were found inside the backpack.

The team says that the items should be excluded from the evidence list because the police did not have a warrant to search the backpack in which they were found.

They also want to remove some statements Mangione allegedly gave to the police, such as giving a false name, as the officers asked those questions before telling him he had a right ot remain silent.

The team also argued that the body camera footage where an officer searched through Mangione’s bag, saying she was just checking to ensure there was not a bomb inside is was an excuse to ‘cover up an illegal warrantless search of the backpack.

Removing Mangione’s journal, which has been quoted extensively by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office from the evidence list, would be a win for Mangione’s team.

In the journal, Mangione writes about rebellion against the ‘the deadly, greed-fuelled health insurance cartel’ and said killing an industry executive ‘conveys a greedy bastard that had it coming.’

The lawyers are also trying to have all statements he made to the officer from his arrest on December 9 until he was transported to New York on December 19 removed from the case.

Mangione has pleaded not guilty to both state and federal charges, which include two counts of stalking, one count of murder through the use of a firearm and one firearms offence.

The United Healthcare CEO was shot and killed on December 4, 2024, as he was walking to a Manhattan hotel for the company’s annual investor conference.