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Luigi Mangione Maintains Model Inmate Role at Brooklyn Jail as Death Penalty Looms

Defendant Luigi Mangione awaits a June 26 hearing at Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, his defense having argued that state and federal charges amount to double jeopardy.

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Overview

  • Mangione has spent more than 175 days detained at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center awaiting a June 26 pretrial hearing on state and federal charges.
  • A fellow inmate describes him as a “model prisoner” who serves as a collie cleaning showers and scours newspapers for coverage of his case.
  • Prosecutors unveiled diary entries expressing his intent to kill a health insurer executive and an alleged confession written “to the feds.”
  • Federal authorities are seeking the death penalty on terrorism charges while the Manhattan District Attorney pursues first-degree murder counts.
  • His legal team has filed motions to dismiss state murder charges, arguing that concurrent federal death penalty proceedings breach the double jeopardy clause.