{"id":109083,"date":"2025-03-01T18:03:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T18:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/luigi-mangiones-pennsylvania-attorney-argues-search-arrest-were-illegal\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T18:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T18:03:33","slug":"luigi-mangiones-pennsylvania-attorney-argues-search-arrest-were-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/luigi-mangiones-pennsylvania-attorney-argues-search-arrest-were-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Luigi Mangione’s Pennsylvania attorney argues search, arrest were illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"
Luigi Mangione appears at a hearing for the murder of UHC CEO Brian Thompson at Manhattan Criminal Court on February 21, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Curtis Means – Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

(NEW YORK) — A defense attorney for Luigi Mangione, the man charged with killing the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, insists a police search and arrest inside a Pennsylvania McDonald’s late last year were illegal.<\/p>\n

Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after a five-day manhunt for the suspect in the fatal shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a New York City hotel on Dec. 4.<\/p>\n

In a court filing posted to the Pennsylvania court docket Friday, Mangione’s Pennsylvania attorney, Thomas Dickey, said Mangione was never properly read his rights.<\/p>\n

Instead, Dickey said, officers from the Altoona Police Department “continued to interrogate and question the Defendant, without any reading of his Miranda Rights.”<\/p>\n

The defense lawyer also said Mangione was given “a specious and unreasonable” answer for why the officers approached him.<\/p>\n

“At no time did the two officers indicate that Defendant was free to go; nor did they explain the reasons as to why Defendant was being detained; other than that, he looked suspicious and\/or over stayed his welcome as a customer at McDonalds,” Dickey wrote.<\/p>\n

In Pennsylvania, Mangione has pleaded not guilty to charges of forgery, possession of an instrument of a crime and giving a false ID to an officer.<\/p>\n

He has also pleaded not guilty to murder charges in New York, a case that takes precedence over the case in Pennsylvania, where court dates have been scrapped and no new dates set. Mangione also faces federal charges, including a charge of murder through the use of a firearm, which makes him eligible for the death penalty.<\/p>\n

His New York attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, has also raised questions about Mangione’s treatment in Pennsylvania custody, arguing during a recent hearing that police body camera footage indicates her client’s “constitutional rights were violated.”<\/p>\n

“I think there’s a very, very serious search issue in this matter, and there might be evidence that is suppressed,” Agnifilo said.<\/p>\n

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