Day 4 of Luigi Mangione’s pretrial hearing is postponed because he’s sick, judge says

NEW YORK AP A pretrial hearing on Luigi Mangione s bid to exclude evidence from his state murder development was postponed Friday because the defendant is sick his lawyers and the judge announced The hearing is slated to resume Monday Mangione is seeking to exclude a gun notebook and other items police officers say they located in his backpack when he was arrested Dec in Altoona Pennsylvania five days after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed in Manhattan He and his lawyers are also trying to suppress chosen statements he made to police Related Articles Trump administration will expand voyage ban to more than countries Noem says Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa actor who performed in Mortal Kombat has died at Suspect in DC pipe bomb occurrence commented to have confessed in interviews with investigators AP sources say What boycotting looks like years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott Shops empty in a Hispanic neighborhood as immigration crackdown comes to Louisiana Mangione has pleaded not guilty to state and federal murder charges The hearing which started Monday and could extend through the end of next week applies only to the state situation Apparently the defendant is ill in contemporary times Judge Gregory Carro reported addressing the courtroom around the time a fourth day of testimony was supposed to start Yes Mangione lawyer Marc Agnifilo mentioned The evidence is key to prosecutors circumstance They have mentioned the mm handgun revealed in the backpack matches the firearm used in the killing that writings in the notebook laid out Mangione s disdain for vitality insurers and ideas about killing a CEO at an investor conference and that he gave police the same fake name that the alleged gunman used at a New York hostel days before the shooting Thompson was shot from behind as he walked to an investor conference He became UnitedHealthcare s CEO in and had worked within parent UnitedHealth Group Inc for years Manhattan prosecutors haven t yet detailed their arguments for allowing the disputed evidence Federal prosecutors have maintained that the backpack search was justified to ensure there was nothing dangerous inside and that Mangione s statements to officers were voluntary and made before he was under arrest