NEW YORK — Accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione turned 27 final month, marking the event with a listing of “27 Issues I am Grateful For” that he despatched to varied individuals who have been writing to him in jail and that’s now circulating on-line.
Mangione is receiving so many letters – his attorneys stated between 10 and 115 per day whereas in federal custody – that he wrote it’s “making a weird and disorienting Groundhog Day situation the place day by day is each Christmas and my Might sixth birthday.”
The suspected killer stated he has acquired letters from greater than 40 international locations and “numerous books,” together with Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” and Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” cluttering the “birdcage” he shares together with his cellmate, recognized as “J.”
Mangione has pleaded not responsible to state and federal prices stemming from the assassination-style capturing demise of United Healthcare chief govt Brian Thompson. His subsequent court docket look is scheduled for June 26, at which Choose Gregory Carro might set a trial date.
“If ever there have been an open and shut case pointing to defendant’s responsible, this case is that case. Merely put, one could be onerous pressed to discover a case with such overwhelming proof of guilt as to the id of the assassin and the premeditated nature of the assassination,” Joel Seidemann, an assistant district legal professional in Manhattan, wrote in a current court docket submitting. “Whereas that is of no solace to Mr. Thompson, his household or his mates, the assassination was not private to Mr. Thompson however somewhat a obligatory a part of defendant’s evil plan to usher revolutionary adjustments to the supply of healthcare in america by the barrel of a gun.”
Mangione has sought to dismiss or delay the state case to focus on the federal case, which might yield the demise penalty.
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