Ongoing proceedings in Luigi Mangione’s state murder case in Manhattan were postponed on Friday after the suspected CEO killer called in sick.
State Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro informed courtroom spectators that Mangione was ill and the suppression hearings in his case would resume on Monday. The judge provided no additional information as to the nature of the illness.
The Maryland man, charged with fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Midtown sidewalk on Dec. 4, 2024, has been in court all week, as his lawyers fight to bar the Manhattan district attorney’s office from presenting specific evidence when the case makes it before a jury in 2026.
They have argued that Altoona, Pa., police officers searched his backpack without a warrant under the guise of looking for a bomb and that the items seized should be barred from the trial, including the alleged handgun used to kill Thompson and an alleged manifesto laying out Mangione’s plans.
They are also seeking to exclude several statements he made to officers before he’d been informed of his right to stay silent.
The hearings could take several more days, with Carro expected to hear from up to 30 witnesses.
