Luigi Mangione’s lawyers say a possible death penalty ‘based on politics, not on merit’

The federal accusation that makes Luigi Mangione eligible for the death penalty if he is convicted of killing the CEO of UnitedHaalthcare, Brian Thompson, should be fired because a “torrent of harm of damage to multiple public officials” violated their constitutional rights and made it impossible to receive a fair trial, defendant lawyers in a new court that presents the court that presents the court of the Court in a new trial.

Mangione declared innocent of four federal positions, including an eligible charge for the death of using a firearm to commit a murder, which accused him of tracking Thompson’s whereabouts, traveling to New York, where Thompson was attending an investor conference, stalking it on the street and then fired several shots from a 9 mm gun.

The defense admitted that there is a high bar to dismiss an accusation due to advertising prior to the trial, but argued: “There has never been a situation remotely in which the prejudice has been so great against an eligible accused for death.”

The defense lawyers pointed out what they called a “dehumanizing and unconstitutional” walk in New York, during which Mangione was televised climbing by a helicopter in shackles.

“This was done only to harm it and without the slightest legitimate objective of the police,” said defense lawyers Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Avi Moskowitz.

“The United States Attorney General, as well as the personnel of application of the law and the elected official of the highest city in New York City, took advantage of all the opportunities to harm Mangione’s possibilities to have a fair jury hearing and fair legal procedures in this case of death penalty,” said the presentation of the defense. “Placing their own political agendas of their administration and administration above the constitutional safeguards secured to each criminal defendant, and especially one that faces a death sentence, the Constitution, the federal rules of criminal procedure, the local rules of this court and the traditional notions of equity.”

The defense pointed out the public statements, publications on social networks and television appearances of the Attorney General Pam Bondi who said that it made it clear that the decision to seek the death penalty was based on politics and not on merit.

In April, Bondi ordered federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Mangione if he is convicted of Thompson’s murder.

“Brian Thompson’s Mangione murder, an innocent man and father of two young children, was a premeditated and cold blood murder that shocked the United States,” Bondi said in a statement at that time.

“The United States Attorney General tells the public that, based on his personal experience as a prosecutor of the capital, who tested cases of death penalty throughout his career that Mangione is guilty and must be executed,” the defense said. “In addition, he also described the incident” an act of political violence “despite the fact that Mr. Mangione was accused in a complaint of stalking a single person who was not a politician or an activist, and that otherwise he was not involved in politics.”

Meanwhile, a judge dismissed this week two state -related murder positions related to acts of terrorism, since Mangione made his first appearance in the Court of Manhattan in five months.

Judge Gregory Carro launched murder positions in the first and second degree that accused Mangione of Murder as a crime of terrorism. The judge said that the evidence presented to the Grand Jury was insufficient to support the position for terrorism.

The rest of the accusation remains, and the judge refuses to dismiss another second degree murder position, to which Mangione declared himself innocent.

“We respect the Court’s decision and we will proceed to the remaining nine positions, including second degree murder,” said Manhattan district prosecutor’s office in a statement after the ruling.

The next appearance in the Mangione court is in December.