In a stunning reversal, Luigi Mangione‘s lawyers told a judge Thursday that he will no longer be asserting a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The retraction came just a day after Mangione’s lawyers told Judge Gregory Carro that they planned to pursue a defense involving claims that the 28-year-old Ivy League graduate was suffering from extreme emotional disturbance at the time of the Dec. 4, 2024, killing.
eh… that depends on how hard the state and federal prosecution/courts are gonna finger-bang him.
which is probably a lot
seems like his lawyers triad to bluff the prosecutors with a new defense strategy, and they didn’t get any traction in pretrial motions, so they’ve dumped it.
this guy’s getting railroaded. no blame on the defense for testing out some ideas…