Luigi Mangione’s much anticipated federal trial stemming from the murder of a top healthcare executive on a Manhattan street was tentatively delayed to 5 October.
The Manhattan federal court judge Margaret Garnett’s scheduling decision on Wednesday came after Mangione’s team requested a postponement of this trial, which had been scheduled for 8 September.
Mangione’s request relates to his New York state-level case in the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The accused murderer’s Manhattan supreme court trial is scheduled for 8 June. The trial is expected to span four to six weeks.
Garnett said that in-person questioning of prospective jurors would start on 5 October with the trial beginning in earnest with openings and testimony on 26 October or 2 November.
Well, it’s not the same crime now is it, one is a state statute and the other is a federal statute. But it’s the same conduct and the same set of facts. So this is one of those edge cases where his lawyers will appeal it if he needs to and then nobody knows what would happen.
Actually it’s going to be extra appealable because if the state case happens first which it probably will, then the results of that will be in the news. And how can you find a jury for a federal case that doesn’t include anyone who saw any information about the results of the state case, and if they find out that he was already found guilty for almost the same crime, then of course they’re going to find him guilty again. And that’s a violation of due process.