Overview
- Judge Gregory Carro postponed Friday’s session after defense counsel reported Luigi Mangione was ill, with the hearing set to resume Monday.
- Defense attorneys seek to suppress a 9 mm pistol, a notebook and other items seized from a backpack, along with certain statements they argue were obtained before Miranda warnings.
- Prosecutors say the pistol matches the murder weapon and that notebook writings expressed disdain for health insurers and contemplated killing a CEO at an investors’ event.
- Federal prosecutors assert the backpack search was justified for officer safety and that any statements were voluntary and made before Mangione was under arrest, while Manhattan prosecutors have yet to detail their legal theory in court.
- Body‑camera footage and testimony show Altoona officers engaged Mangione for roughly 20 minutes at a McDonald’s, during which he presented a fake New Jersey ID before he was Mirandized and arrested on a forgery charge; he has pleaded not guilty in state and federal cases.