Luigi Mangione Tries to Toss Gun, Manifesto From Murder Case

December 1, 2025, 4:33 PM UTC

Luigi Mangione’s lawyers will ask a judge to toss evidence seized during his arrest last year, arguing that police illegally seized a handgun and a diary from his backpack that prosecutors say showed he planned to kill a healthcare executive.

In a multi-day hearing starting in New York state court on Monday, lawyers for Mangione will argue that the local police officers who arrested him at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, violated his legal rights by searching his backpack without a warrant and questioned him for 20 minutes before reading him his constitutional rights.

Luigi Mangione during a pretrial hearing at New York State Supreme Court in New York on Dec. 1.
Photographer: Steven Hirsch/New York Post/Bloomberg

The 27-year-old is accused ...

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