The person accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO exterior a New York Metropolis resort is unlikely to seem in Manhattan federal court docket once more earlier than mid-February after prosecutors and attorneys on Monday requested extra time to arrange the case for trial.
The attorneys agreed in a letter to the court docket that the deadline to convey an indictment in opposition to Luigi Mangione will be prolonged from Jan. 18 to Feb. 17.
Mangione, 26, is now charged in a prison criticism, a doc that’s lodged in opposition to people previous to the return of an indictment.
Prosecutors stated they consulted with the protection and agreed that extending the deadline was needed “to permit both parties adequate preparation for pretrial proceedings and the trial itself.”
Attorneys for Mangione and federal prosecutors declined to remark.
The case is uncommon as a result of not less than one cost carries the potential of the loss of life penalty, however whether or not to pursue that penalty have to be made by the Justice Division in Washington, the place prime officers will likely be modified as President-elect Donald Trump takes workplace later this month.
Authorities say Mangione fatally shot Brian Thompson on Dec. 4 as he was strolling to an investor convention in midtown Manhattan.
The killing shocked the enterprise neighborhood and galvanized some medical health insurance critics. Mangione posted regularly on-line about his struggles with again ache, although he was by no means a UnitedHealthcare shopper.
Watch Luigi Mangione’s arraignment at state court docket in Manhattan on homicide and terror fees in loss of life of UnitedHealthcare CEO. Mangione pled not responsible.
Federal fees in opposition to Mangione embrace homicide and firearms counts. He made an preliminary look on the fees late final month. He will not be required to enter a plea till an indictment is returned.
Mangione has pleaded not responsible in a New York state court docket to a number of counts of homicide, together with homicide as an act of terrorism. Prosecutors have stated the 2 instances will proceed on parallel tracks, with the state fees anticipated to go to trial first. His subsequent look in state court docket is scheduled for Feb. 21.
The utmost sentence for the state fees is life in jail with out parole.
Mangione was arrested Dec. 9 in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s following a five-day search. He is being held in a Brooklyn federal jail alongside a number of different high-profile defendants, together with Sean “Diddy” Combs and cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried.
