Courts and Crime
Only one day after a New York state judge unsealed Mangione’s notice to potentially use an “extreme emotional disturbance” defense, his team abruptly changed course
Luigi Mangione’s defense team filed a notice on Thursday to the New York state judge in his murder case, saying they are withdrawing their intent to argue a psychiatric defense.
This comes only one day after Judge Gregory Carro unsealed the defense team’s notice, which revealed they were potentially going to argue that Mangione was under “extreme emotional disturbance” when he allegedly shot United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione has pleaded not guilty to all state and federal charges against him.
“The defense respectfully withdraws CPL 250.10 notice at this time,” said the one-sentence email signed by Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Marc Agnifilo, and Jacob Kaplan, the attorneys leading Mangione’s defense team.
