A federal choose has granted accused CEO murderer Luigi Mangione‘s request to obtain a laptop computer in jail, Us Weekly can solely reveal.
U.S. District Choose Margaret M. Garnett signed a courtroom doc on Monday, August 4, ordering the Metropolitan Detention Heart (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York, to “present Mr. Mangione with the laptop computer ready by the Authorities, with entry to it seven days per week from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm.”
Garnett's approval comes three days after Mangione's attorneys wrote her a letter in search of a private laptop for his or her consumer so he can “adequately put together for trial and help in his personal protection.”
The attorneys, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Marc Agnifilo and Jacob Kaplan, famous of their Friday, August 2, letter, additionally obtained by Us, that the laptop computer could be disabled from accessing the web, printers and wi-fi networks in compliance with MDC laws. As a substitute, Mangione would solely be capable to entry case-related info supplied by the federal government, together with paperwork and movies.
Mangione, 27, was arrested in December 2024 in reference to the deadly capturing of UnitedHealthcare chief govt Brian Thompson earlier that month in New York Metropolis. The Ivy League graduate faces 4 federal fees and 11 state fees, together with homicide, terrorism and stalking.
Mangione has pleaded not responsible to all fees. Federal prosecutors are in search of the dying penalty.
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The Manhattan District Legal professional's Workplace beforehand objected to Mangione's request for a laptop computer, noting that he had entry to shared desktop computer systems in jail. Nevertheless, his attorneys argued that the case's materials was so voluminous — upwards of seven terabytes — that he wanted his personal laptop computer.
The request was not totally outlandish for MDC Brooklyn, as Mangione's fellow inmate Sean “Diddy” Combs was given a laptop computer final yr to organize for his trial. (In July, the rapper was discovered responsible of two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution however acquitted of extra severe fees of intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.)
PA State Police/MEGA Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man suspected of capturing and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan, was apprehended by regulation enforcement officers on December 9 after a five-day search. Pictures of Mangione in police custody have been then circulated on-line, and a few celebrities … appreciated what they noticed. “Does he want a […]
Mangione and Diddy, 55, share not solely a jail but in addition a lawyer; Agnifilo led the hip-hop mogul's protection group.
“My function [in Mangione's case] most likely elevated when the federal authorities acquired concerned, and positively after they charged him with a death-eligible offense. So we're on this very a lot collectively,” Agnifilo stated on the “Original Jurisdiction” podcast final month, referring to himself and his spouse and co-counsel, Friedman Agnifilo.
“Karen spends plenty of time with Luigi on the MDC and on their equal of Zoom, known as VTCs, and that's a vital factor that she does, and she or he is aware of the info of the Mangione case chilly,” he continued. “Now that [Diddy's] trial's accomplished, that's most likely the following large challenge.”
