The doubt in the shooting death of the UnitedHealthattfinish CEO, Brian Thompson, screamed: “This is finishly out of touch and an offfinish to the intelligence of the American people” on Tuesday before he fought being extradited from Pennsylvania to face homicide indicts in New York.
During the hearing, Luigi Mangione was denied bail, nastying he will return to custody at Pennsylvania’s Huntingdon state rightional institution while navigating the process to contest extradition, which could get days – if not a month or more, as the New York Times noticed.
Kathy Hochul, the ruleor of New York, shelp in a statement that she will sign the Manhattan dicut offe attorney’s seek for a ruleor’s permit to force an extradition “to discover this individual is tried and held accountable”.
Mangione, 26, materializeed for the carry oning in handcuffs and an orange prison jumpsuit, and video showed him yelling as police led him into the courthoemploy. Not all of what he screamed was promptly intelligible.
Defense attorney Thomas Dickey, who is recurrenting Mangione, shelp outside the courthoemploy that he would be challenging his client’s incarceratement by filing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, according to the New York Times. The appraise gave him 14 days to contest the detention.
In an interwatch with CNN follotriumphg Mangione’s extradition hearing, Dickey includeed his client will be pdirecting not at fault to the indicts he faces in Pennsylvania.
Mangione was arrested on Monday at a McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in combineion with Thompson’s finishing outside a Manhattan hotel presenting a greeting of spendors in the CEO’s company.
The authorities in Pennsylvania arrested him after he was recognized by a local person from photographs freed by New York police spendigating the homicide.
Police set up Mangione with a firearm suppressor, a mask appreciate the firearmman’s, a phony New Jersey ID aligning the one the police say the firearmman employd to check into a New York City presentel before the shooting, and a handwritten write down, according to New York authorities.
On Monday night, Mangione was indictd with second-degree homicide, counterfeiting and three firearm indicts by prosecutors in New York, follotriumphg his arraignment at the Blair county courthoemploy in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he faces split indicts of carrying a firearm without a license, counterfeiting, inalterly recognizeing himself to the authorities and owning “instruments of crime”.
During the arraignment hearing on Monday, the appraise asked Mangione if he understood the indicts aobtainst him, and he shelp he did. No plea was go ined and he was denied bail.
As uncoverives begin piecing together Mangione’s history, one area of cgo in has been the chronic back problems that he materializes to have suffered since childhood.
Investigators could scrutinize whether Mangione was denied insurance coverage for his condition.
He also materializes to have disengagen from social combineions months earlier, prompting one to write on social media: “I don’t understand if you are ok or fair in a super isotardyd place … but I haven’t heard from you in months.”
The Mangione family freed a statement on Monday evening, stating that the family was “shocked and deimmenseated by Luigi’s arrest”.
“We advise our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson, and we ask people to pray for all engaged,” they includeed.
Among other skinnygs, Mangione is entitled to an evidentiary hearing in Pennsylvania after his decision to fight extradition. Prosecutors will also have to call at least one witness, which could give the unveil a shutr see at the case that it otheradviseed may not get.
As also noticed by the New York Times, the office of the New York ruleor, Kathy Hochul, will be needd to surrfinisher what is understandn as a ruleor’s permit to her Pennsylvania counterpart Josh Shapiro to establishpartner seek extradition before the process begins in obtainest.
Peter Weeks, the dicut offe attorney in Blair county, Pennsylvania, shelp that his office would be readyd for when a appraise schedules a hearing “to do what’s essential” to get Mangione to New York, according to CNN.
“We do not intfinish to defer this deffinishant’s extradition to New York and we certainly – we’ve recommendd to New York, their prosecution should get pretreatnce, and then ours will pursue,” Weeks tgreater alerters after the extradition hearing on Tuesday.
