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Bodycam Footage and New Exhibits Drive Mangione Evidence Suppression Fight

The ruling on the warrantless backpack search could reshape the state case, with federal prosecutors pursuing a death‑penalty path.

Overview

  • Officer Christy Wasser testified that bodycam video shows her finding a loaded magazine wrapped in wet underwear minutes after Luigi Mangione’s arrest at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s.
  • At the station, officers documented a 9mm handgun, a suppressor and a red notebook described by prosecutors as containing anti‑insurer writings, items the defense seeks to exclude.
  • Manhattan prosecutors released additional photos of seized items, including a handwritten to‑do list, a USB necklace, a pocketknife with zip ties, thousands in $100 bills and a bus ticket in the alias “Sam Dawson.”
  • Defense lawyers challenged the search as unconstitutional, questioned Wasser’s stated bomb concern and highlighted roughly 11 minutes of missing bodycam footage during transport of the evidence.
  • Prosecutors say the pistol matches the murder weapon and argue the search was lawful; Blair County’s first assistant DA testified that warrants were approved later to formalize seizure and transfer to NYPD, while the judge has not ruled.