Mangione, 28, is accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a hotel in Midtown in December 2024.

NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione will assert a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a judge said Wednesday.

Mangione is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024.

Mangione is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024.

Luigi Mangione's lawyers will argue that he was suffering from an extreme emotional disturbance when he allegedly killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Luigi Mangione will assert that he was suffering from "extreme emotional disturbance" at the time of the shooting with which he is charged.

Luigi Mangione’s defense attorneys withdrew their notice to pursue psychiatric defense in a one-line email to Judge Gregory Carro.

The legal strategy—which is not an insanity defense—would be an admission that Mangione killed UnitedHealth's Brian Thompson, but did so under mitigating circumstances.

Mangione’s team would have been required to submit his psychiatric records to the Manhattan district attorney's office if it followed through on its defense.

In a stunning reversal, Luigi Mangione’s lawyers told a judge that he will no longer be asserting a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in the killing of…

Luigi Mangione's legal team on Thursday withdrew its intention to invoke a psychiatric defense in the state trial over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The filing comes one day after a judge said that Mangione’s lawyers planned to argue that he was experiencing “extreme emotional disturbance” when a UnitedHealthcare CEO was…

The decision comes a day after Mangione’s team said they intended to argue that he was suffering from extreme emotional disturbance

Luigi Mangione has withdrawn plans to pursue an extreme emotional disturbance defense, Reuters reported Friday

In a stunning reversal, Luigi Mangione's lawyers told a judge Thursday that he will no longer be asserting a psychiatric defence at his state murder trial in the killing of…

Mangione, 28, is accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a hotel in Midtown in December 2024.

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione, alleged to have killed CEO Brian Thompson, withdrew their plan to use a psychiatric defense in his New York state trial.