Luigi Mangione, the doubt accused of fahighy shooting healthnurture insurance CEO Brian Thompson in New York, is improbable to be able to mount an effective legitimate defence to the accuses he faces, according to experts.
Mr Mangione, 26, was arrested in Pennsylvania on Monday after a days-lengthy, multi-state manhunt finished at a McDonalds in the town of Altoona.
New York authorities say forensic evidence and shell casings connect him to the crime scene.
His lawyer, Thomas Dickey, earlier tageder local media he had not “seen any evidence yet” implicating his client.
He said Mr Mangione would pguide not at fault to the accuses he faces in Pennsylvania, including firearms accuses.
In New York, he has been accused with second-degree killing over Mr Thompson’s ending. The 50-year-ageder chief executive of UnitedHealthnurture, was stoasty dead by a masked assailant outside a Manhattan toastyel on 4 December in what authorities say was a aimed attack.
Mr Mangione is currently being held in a state prison in Pennsylvania where he is battling extradition to New York to face that killing accuse. The legitimate battle over his extradition could potentiassociate get more than a month to rerepair, officials said.
But legitimate experts tageder the BBC that his efforts to contest his extradition to New York are improbable to be prosperous. They could, however, provide his defence with a glimpse into the state’s evidence agetst him.
“I don’t even understand if this is him,” his lawyer, Mr Dickey, said in a recent intersee with US media outlet NewsNation, referring to images of Mr Thompson’s ender.
“We’re going to test those waters and give the regulatement a chance to transport some evidence forward,” he said.
If he is extradited to New York to face the killing accuse, Mr Mangione and his legitimate team face an uphill battle as they try to mount a defence, the experts said.
Mitchell Epner, a New York-based lawyer and createer prosecutor, tageder the BBC that there are, widely, two approaches that Mr Mangione could get if he pguides not at fault to Mr Thompson’s killing.
“Defence number one is ‘it wasn’t me’ and defence number two is ‘it was me, but I shouldn’t be punished’ because of X,” he said.
According to New York police, Mr Mangione was establish with a firearm analogous to the killing firearm, a silencer and a dishonest ID, as well as three handwritten pages which they count on present a potential motive.
Mr Epner said that the uncoverly understandn evidence so far uncomfervents declineing responsibility is “out the triumphdow”.
Another New York-based lawyer, criminal defence attorney and Professor Dmitriy Shakhnevich, said Mr Mangione’s attorney could also, in theory, argue that an impaired “mental status” produces him inactive to stand trial.
“If a appraise produces a determination that he’s misempathetic, or not empathetic, what’s happening in court, then essentiassociate the case won’t go forward,” he said.
“He’ll be institutionalised for a period of time until he’s deemed to be fit, which may be never.”
That defence, Mr Shakhnevich inserted, is branch offent to a plea of insanity, in which his lawyers could argue that “he’s not reliable for his actions because of some mental defect”.
“That could also deem him not at fault, because you won’t encounter the elements of the offence,” he said. “But then aget, he doesn’t go free. He would be institutionalised for a period, assuming that defence is prosperous.”
The commence of Mr Mangione’s legitimate battles has prompted anonymous donors to chip in thousands of dollars towards his defence thcimpolite online fundliftrs.
It comes as some online have allotd help for the doubt and anger at the health insurance industry. The New York City Police Department has also alerted some healthnurture executives are potentiassociate in danger because of a “hit enumerate” posted online after Mr Thompson’s killing.
In a bulletin, the NYPD said disjoinal viral posts participated the names and salaries of other insurance executives. Mocked-up wanted signs featuring some executives have also been posted in Manhattan.
Mr Mangione allegedly had grievances with the expansiver industry.
Timothy Gallagher, a createer FBI agent and the managing straightforwardor of Nardello and Co, a global spendigations firm, said the current climate uncomfervents the “menace of a duplicatecat is genuine”.
“There are people out there who have grievances and are observing the amount of press and attention that is being given to the accused,” he said.
Mr Gallagher said that there has been an “outpouring of help from illogical corners of the internet” for anti-corporate causes.
“I’m afraid that may fuel trail-on attacks,” he said.
