A judge in charge of case of Luigi Mangioneaccused of murdering the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, admitted this May 18 that both the alleged weapon used in the crime and the notebook with several records seized from the young man They will be admitted as evidence during the trial.
Gregory Carro, judge in charge of the case, made public his decision before Mangione appeared in state court.
However, Carro said he also ruled out several objects found when Mangione was arrested in Pennsylvania.
These objects, according to the judge, are “a magazine, Mangione’s cell phone, his passport, his wallet and a computer chip”.
It all started after a request from Mangione’s defense, in which he sought to dismiss some of the evidence found. when the defendant was arrested at a McDonald’s.
According to Mangione’s defense, it was necessary to reject “several pieces of evidence” since the arrest was carried out without a court order and outside the limits of the search incidental to the arrest.
Other objects that the judge admitted The evidence included another red notebook and Mangione’s incriminating writings.
“The fact that the agents photographed each of the pages shows that the purpose was to catalog and not to investigate, and (Agent Jon) “Burns was careful to document every page of the notebook to protect against claims of damage or tampering,” the judge said.
American media indicate that, in said notebook, there was a list of tasks that Mangione was going to do before Thompson’s murder. in addition to a writing in which the man criticizes health insurers.
Mangione pleaded not guilty and is currently He is detained in a federal prison in New York.
The defendant faces federal and state charges for crimes including murder.
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