Luigi Mangione throughout a pretrial listening to at New York State Supreme Court docket in New York, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026.
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Luigi Mangione is anticipated to plead responsible Friday in his federal prison case, the place he’s charged with stalking in connection together with his alleged killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a midtown Manhattan avenue in 2024, The New York Occasions reported Thursday, citing sources.
Mangione is scheduled to seem in U.S. District Court docket in Manhattan on Friday for a pretrial convention with Choose Margaret Garnett, which was requested in a courtroom submitting on Tuesday by each prosecutors and protection legal professionals.
He’s individually charged in New York state courtroom with murdering Thompson and different counts.
If Mangione does plead responsible within the federal case, his attorneys are anticipated to argue that he can’t be prosecuted for homicide within the state case due to New York’s double jeopardy regulation, The Occasions famous in its report Thursday.
A spokesman for the Manhattan U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace declined to remark to CNBC when requested if Mangione is anticipated to plead responsible within the federal case. CNBC has requested remark from a spokeswoman for Mangione’s protection staff.
Thompson, 50, was fatally shot exterior the Hilton Resort on Sixth Avenue in December 2024 whereas strolling to an buyers’ occasion for his firm’s father or mother, UnitedHealth Group. Thompson’s firm is the most important well being insurer in america.
Jury choice within the state homicide case is scheduled to start on Sept. 8.
Mangione’s federal trial is presently scheduled to start in January.
Garnett in January dismissed two federal prison counts towards Mangione, together with one which accused him of the homicide of Thompson by using a firearm throughout alleged stalking. Mangione had confronted the potential of receiving the loss of life penalty if convicted on that rely.
The 2 remaining counts within the case — interstate stalking leading to loss of life and stalking by use of interstate services leading to loss of life — every carry a doable most sentence of life in jail.
