NEW YORK (AP) — The person accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO outdoors a New York Metropolis resort is unlikely to look in Manhattan federal court docket once more earlier than mid-February after prosecutors and legal professionals on Monday requested extra time to organize the case for trial.
The legal professionals agreed in a letter to the court docket that the deadline to carry an indictment in opposition to Luigi Mangione could be prolonged from Jan. 18 to Feb. 17.
Mangione, 26, is now charged in a legal criticism, a doc that’s lodged in opposition to people previous to the return of an indictment.
Prosecutors stated they consulted with the protection and agreed that extending the deadline was crucial “to permit both parties adequate preparation for pretrial proceedings and the trial itself.”
Attorneys for Mangione and federal prosecutors declined to remark.
The case is uncommon as a result of a minimum of one cost carries the opportunity of the dying penalty, however whether or not to pursue that penalty have to be made by the Justice Division in Washington, the place high officers shall be modified as President-elect Donald Trump takes workplace later this month.
Authorities say Mangione fatally shot Brian Thompson on Dec. 4 as he was strolling to an investor convention in midtown Manhattan.
The killing shocked the enterprise neighborhood and galvanized some medical insurance critics. Mangione posted often on-line about his struggles with again ache, although he was by no means a UnitedHealthcare consumer.
Federal charges in opposition to Mangione embrace homicide and firearms counts. He made an preliminary look on the costs late final month. He received’t be required to enter a plea till an indictment is returned.
Mangione has pleaded not responsible in a New York state court docket to a number of counts of homicide, together with homicide as an act of terrorism. Prosecutors have stated the 2 circumstances will proceed on parallel tracks, with the state charges anticipated to go to trial first. His subsequent look in state court docket is scheduled for Feb. 21.
The utmost sentence for the state charges is life in jail with out parole.
Mangione was arrested Dec. 9 in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s following a five-day search. He’s being held in a Brooklyn federal jail alongside a number of different high-profile defendants, together with Sean “Diddy” Combs and cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried.
