Luigi Mangione’s lawyer says that the search for Pennsylvania, the arrest was illegal

New York – Luigi Mangione’s lawyer said the Police in Pennsylvania arrested illegally and registered it in December when she was wanted for New York murder of the UnitedHealth Group Executive Inc. Brian Thompson.

Police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, did not read their rights against self -incrimination, as required by the Constitution of the United States, when they arrested him on December 9, five days after Thompson was shot in a Manhattan sidewalk, according to the presentation. The Altoona Police accused Mangione of transporting false documents and having a licenseless gun.

The authorities of the United States and New York then presented positions for murder separately against Mangione, 26. He declared himself innocent in all cases. Federal prosecutors can follow the death penalty, while the New York case could generate life imprisonment if they are convicted.

The presentation provides new details on Mangione arrest day and what evidence the police recovered.

The request for Pennsylvania to suppress any statement made by Mangione and the evidence collected during the search, if granted, could weaken the cases of murder of New York, limiting to some evidence that prosecutors could use in the trial.

Pennsylvania and federal cases will pass to the background while the prosecution of the state of New York proceeds.

Even so, defense lawyer Thomas Dickey said in a presentation in Blair County, Pennsylvania, that the police acted illegally when they approached Mangione in depth of an McDonald’s in the middle of a national national hunt. Two officers gave him a “misleading and unreasonable reason” to approach him, saying that he seemed suspicious and survived his welcome as a patron, Dickey wrote.

Police never said he was free to go or said why he was being arrested, while asking questions without reading his rights, Dickey said. If Mangione wanted to leave, he would have had to pass up to 10 officers who entered the restaurant. The police interrogated him for 15 minutes before saying that he was “officially under a police investigation” and asked his name, the presentation said. Then he was read his rights and asked if he wanted to talk to the police.

Mangionion then “shook his head not”, and an officer said “You are not in custody,” Dickey wrote. “This statement was materially false, inaccurate and contrary to the law. It is clear at this time that the defendant was in fact in custody. “

A few minutes later, the police placed Mangione under arrest and registered his backpack. They found a 9 mm ghost gun with a silencer, a magazine with ammunition, a red notebook that the authorities call a manifesto, a foreign and foreign currency, a digital polaroid camera and a bus ticket from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, according to the presentation.

The prosecutor in Blair County did not immediately respond to a request for comments. A hearing was canceled in the case of Pennsylvania for February 24.

In a judicial hearing in New York last week, the mangarian lawyer, Karen Friedman, Agnifilo, said that state prosecutors have not given sufficient evidence for her to respond properly to state and federal positions.

Friedman Agnifilo complained that he has not seen great evidence, including a call “manifesto” to which he was mentioned in an HBO documentary in which the officials of the New York Police Department and even Mayor Eric Adams were interviewed in Chamber and discussed the case in detail.

Mangione has won the support of many Americans who are angry at the health insurance industry, particularly due to the frequent negation of coverage for expensive and necessary procedures. An online fund collection page created to help pay Mangione’s defense has raised more than $ 632,000.