Luigi Mangione has been arraigned, what/s next ?

Fox's Tonya J Powers reports that Luigi Mangioni was arraigned for the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and Pam Bondi is going to seek the death penalty

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
On the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line will
switch gears and check in with Fox News Tany J
Powers And A couple of days ago, Luigi Mangioni was
arraigned in federal court in New York after the murder
back in with December of last year of United Healthcare
CEO Brian Thompson and a lot of reactions to this.

(00:20):
A lot of folks. There was a line of his
fans outside the courtroom. He's got this cult following of
people who think that he's he should be celebrated and
not thrown in jail.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Oh yeah, there's there's always a lot of people, you know,
outside the courthouse. Whatever he's doe in court, you know,
that's that's kind of kind of something that we have
begun to expect these days. This was and just to
be clear, this was an appearance in in the federal case,
so there were no cameras in the court room for
this one. This was this is of course running alongside

(00:55):
the State of New York murder charges case that you know,
kind of along with this for the same incident, but
this one was federal. The judge asked him if he
understood the charges against him, and the indictment. He stood
there by his lawyers had his prison jumpsuit on feet shackled.
He said that yes, he understood the charges against him.

(01:18):
The judge asked him how he wanted to plead, He said,
not guilty. He sat down. He is, like I said,
charge with stalking, a firearm offense, and murder through the
use of a firearm Federally. He has also, by the way,
pleaded not guilty to the state charges in New York
as well as the ones in Pennsylvania. That one does
not include murder, but there are still charges there.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
What are his grounds for pleading not guilty? I mean,
it's quite clear that he was the one that did
this shooting Brian Thompson, the president and CEO of United
health Care, So what are his What was attorneys arguing here?

Speaker 2 (01:54):
I don't think we've heard anything as far as like
their strategy for argument. Yet this was strictly an arrange,
meant where he entered a plea. So I don't you know,
I kind of doubt that we're going to know much
more about this as far as what the attorneys say,
other than you know, he deserves his day in court,
and you know that kind of stuff. We did hear that. More,

(02:14):
we did learn that the prosecutors said that these are
going to proceed on parallel tracks. The state case is
expected to go to trial first, but you know, Luji
Mangioni's lawyer said that they're going to try and have
the federal case take precedent because it involves the death penalty.
The state case the maximum he can get his life
in prison because it's New York State and we don't

(02:35):
have the death penalty, but the federal case they have already.
The Attorney General, Pam Bondi, has already made it very
clear that she intends to seek the death penalty in
this case.